TY  - BOOK
AU  - Donald Barthelme
TI  - Sixty Stories (Penguin Classics)
SN  - 9780142437391
AV  - PS3552.A76 
U1  - 813.54 
PB  - Penguin Classics
KW  - Short Stories
N2  - 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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