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Forty Stories by Donald Barthelme
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In Forty Stories, Donald Barthelme invented a random universe in which time, reality, meaning and language are turned exuberantly upside-down. He describes a startling array of occurrences ? a lumberjack falls in love with a tree nymph; the poet Goethe becomes a loveable buffoon, spouting such eccentric ...Show more
Forty Stories by Donald Barthelme
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
William H. Gass has written of Donald Barthelme that ?he has permanently enlarged our perception of the possibilities open to short fiction.? In Forty Stories, the companion volume to "Sixty Stories," we encounter a dazzling array of subjects: Paul Klee, Goethe, "Captain Blood," modern courtship, marria ...Show more
Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme
$37.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
With these sixty audacious and blackly witty stories, Donald Barthelme depicts a rich miscellany of the absurdities of life. Surreal events abound ? a thirty-five year old man finds himself back in sixth grade due to a baffling error; King Kong, now an adjunct professor of art history, climbs through a ...Show more
Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
With these audacious and murderously witty stories, Donald Barthelme threw the preoccupations of our time into the literary equivalent of a Cuisinart and served up a gorgeous salad of American culture, high and low. Here are the urban upheavals reimagined as frontier myth; travelogues through countries ...Show more
Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby by Donald Barthelme
$5.00 AUD
Category: Classics
'I said that although hanging Colby was almost certainly against the law, we had a perfect moral right to do so because he was our friend, belonged to us in various important senses, and he had after all gone too far.' Donald Barthelme is a puckish player with language, a writer of short but endlessly r ...Show more
The Dead Father by Donald Barthelme; Donald Antrim (Introduction by)
$27.50 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
"There is nothing unusual about the foot, except that it is seven meters high." Nineteen people are dragging, by means of a cable, an immense carcass through the countryside. The carcass is that of the Dead Father, a half-dead, half-alive, part-mechanical, wise, vain, powerful being who still has hopes ...Show more
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