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Forty Stories (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) Book

This collection of pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces is a companion to Sixty Stories, Barthelme's earlier retrospective volume. Barthelme spotlights the idiosyncratic, haughty, sometimes downright ludicrous behavior of human beings, but it is style rather than content which takes precedence.Read More

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  • Penguin

    In Forty Stories, Donald Barthelme invented a random universe in which time, reality, meaning and language are turned exuberantly upside-down.

  • Pickabook

    Donald Barthelme, Dave Eggers

  • Amazon Review

    Like the title says, here are 40 short works culled from across Barthelme's career. Along with the similarly titled 60 Stories, this book provides one of the best samplings currently in print of Barthelme's unrivaled humor, his melancholy, the poetry of his line, and his considerable intellect. It includes pieces such as the famous "Sentence," (a single, several-page-long, unfinished sentence), "The Flight of Pigeons From the Palace," one of the writer's illustrated stories, and "Overnight To Many Distant Cities."

  • 0141180943
  • 9780141180946
  • Donald Barthelme, Dave Eggers
  • 7 April 2005
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 256
  • New Ed
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