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| Flying to America: 45 More Stories |
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| by Donald Barthelme |
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| Donald Barthelme was one of the most influential and inventive writers of the 20th century. In this volume of unpublished and previously uncollected stories, he transforms the absurd and strange into the real in his usual epiphanic, engaging,... Read More |
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| Publication Date: October 2008 |
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| Publication Date: January 2008 |
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| The King |
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| by Donald Barthelme |
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| Barthelme’s last book, published posthumously, is a novel composed in dialogue in which King Arthur finds himself battling against the Nazis in World War II. Arthur simultaneously prepares his son Mordred for the duties of ruling the... Read More |
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| Publication Date: March 2006 |
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| Paradise (American Literature Series) |
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| by Donald Barthelme |
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| Simon, a middle-aged architect separated from his wife, is given the chance to live out a stereotypical male fantasy: freed from the travails of married life, he ends up living with three nubile lingerie models who use him as a sexual object.... Read More |
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| Publication Date: December 2005 |
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| Forty Stories |
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| by Donald Barthelme |
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| The late National Book Award-winning author offers a collection of short stories that reflects society's follies and foibles--including, "At the Tolstoy Museum," "Sentence," and "Porcupines at the... Read More |
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| Publication Date: February 2005 |
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| The Dead Father |
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| by Donald Barthelme |
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| The Dead Father is a gargantuan half-dead, half-alive, part mechanical, wise, vain, powerful being who still has hopes for himself--even while he is being dragged by means of a cable toward a mysterious goal. In this extraordinary novel,... Read More |
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| Publication Date: September 2004 |
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| Sixty Stories |
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| by Donald Barthelme |
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| If you read straight through these stories you're bound to be struck by the volume's cohesiveness. Donald Barthelme's writing is from the outset firm and sure, entirely his own. He experiments as freely nowadays as he did when he was younger,... Read More |
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| Publication Date: September 2003 |
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| Snow White |
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| by Donald Barthelme |
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| An inventive, satiric modern retelling of the classic fairy tale provides an incisive and biting commentary on the absurdities and complexities of modern life. Reprint. 12,500 first printing. |
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| Publication Date: May 1996 |
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