Sixty Stories
Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme, published by Penguin on September 30, 2003, is a collection of 480 pages that showcases the author’s unique approach to storytelling. This edition presents a selection of Barthelme’s audacious and witty narratives that explore the complexities of American culture through a blend of humor and incisive observation. The stories reimagine urban upheavals and delve into the human psyche, offering readers a distinctive literary experience.
In this collection, readers will find a diverse array of short stories that reflect Barthelme’s mastery of language and perception. The narratives range from travelogues in surreal landscapes to cryptic dialogues that probe deep into human emotions and anxieties. With themes that intertwine fiction and humor, Sixty Stories serves as a testament to Barthelme’s innovative style and his ability to capture the essence of contemporary life.
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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 that might have been created by Kafka; cryptic dialogues that bore down to the bedrock of our longings, dreams, and angsts. Like all of Barthelme’s work, the sixty stories collected in this volume are triumphs of language and perception, at once unsettling and irresistible.
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