About this title: This book includes selected stories from eight of Barthelme's previous collections published between 1964 and 1979--many of which are now out of print--and nine previously uncollected stories. Over the years his stylistic innovations have had a wide influence on short story authors and have inspired many imitators, but this collection demonstrates how consistent and singular Barthelme's originality truly was.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Plume
Date Published: 1982-09-21
ISBN-13:9780525484530ISBN:0525484531
Description: Good. SOFTCOVER. Good + Condition. Binding tight, pages clean but tanned. Previous owner's name on front "praise page. " Long crease at bottom right corner of front cover. Light edge-wear. Nice reading copy. read more
Description: VG+ Used, Like New in VG+ jacket. SOFT COVER, VG+/VG+, Plume, 1982, 1 in. H x 7 in. L x 5 in. W, 11.5 oz. This copy has very minimal signs of use, appears to have been very lightly read, is in Excellent Condition Overall. Special Notes on this book: crease on upper rear corner Note: expect tanning of any paperback more than a few years old, regardless of condition. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Date Published: 2003-10-01
ISBN-13:9780142437391ISBN:0142437395
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780142437391. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780142437391ISBN:0142437395
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780141180939ISBN:0141180935
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 480 pages. (464 pages) this collection of donald barthelme's literary output during the 1960s and 1970s covers the period when the writer came to prominence, producing the stories, satires, parodies, and other formal experiments that altered fiction as we know it. (Paperback) read more
Edition: First
Binding: hardcover
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York
Date Published: (1981)
ISBN-13:9780399126598ISBN:0399126597
Description: First edition. Fine with a remainder mark on the bottom edge, in a near fine dustwrapper with a short tear and wrinkle at the top of the spine. A collection of stories by a master of the form, including nine not previously published in book form. read more
Edition: 1st ed., signed issue, ltd. to 500 numbered copies signed by
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York
Date Published: 1981
Description: Spine just slighty sunned, else a fine copy, in publisher's cloth slipcase. Slipcase is a bit dust soiled, else fine. BARTHELME, Donald. SIXTY STORIES. Large octavo, maroon cloth, 457 pages. read more
Edition: Limited
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Putnam Pub Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780399126598ISBN:0399126597
Description: Fine. No Jacket as Issued. Signed by Author Beautiful copy of this edition limited to 500 copies of which this is number 275, signed by the author on the limitation page. Book is in maroon slipcase. read more
Edition: Limited Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, NY, USA
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780399126598ISBN:0399126597
Description: Fine+; Signed by Author. 8vo. 0399126597. A beautiful Limited Edition (limited to 500 copies, this one being number 15) in Very Fine condition in publisher's slipcase showing a little rubbing. Signed by author Donald Barthelme directly on the limitation page. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Minerva
Date Published: 02/05/1991
ISBN-13:9780749391195ISBN:0749391197
Description: Used-Good. Book in good or better condition. Dispatched same day from warehouse. Please email with any questions for quick response. read more
"At least 45 of them good. My favorite is the one about the kids who get really depressed because their class pets are always dying, and then at the end a new gerbil arrives and everyone cheers wildly."
"The best description of a Barthelme book that I've encountered is that his writing makes you feel "free." Part of Barthelme's remarkable ability to impact the reader both intellectually and emotionally derives from his gift with endings (ie Shower of Gold, The Balloon, The Death of Edward Lear), which often feel like a punch in the gut. Most of said ability derives from his inimitable gift with words. This is not to say that he's especially readable, and I found myself skipping stories when I first read this, but obscure Barthelme is still better than 95% of the stuff out there.
Does Bartheleme have a progeny? Interestingly enough, I've found that Lemony Snicket's works are quite Barthelme-y in their construction."
"Finally got around to finishing this book, afraid that I might already have read all the really good ones. But I kept being surprised by how much humor and brilliance and pathos Barthelme could keep piling on, story after story. I've always been a fan of "Critique de la Vie Quotidienne," "I Bought a Little City," "The Zombies." This time, it was The Songs of Ralph and Maude in "At the End of the Mechanical Age," the Balloon of Last Thing to Do at Night and the Balloon of the Ballade of the Crazy Junta and the Balloon of God Knows I Tried in "The Great Hug," and the thrilling, hectic, terribly terribly sad and horrifying "A Manual for Sons." I am not such a fan of the meandering collage-like stories; I find the variations-on-a-theme stories and the pretending-to-have-a-narrative-core stories more attractive (because easier? Perhaps). I know no other writer who can write so frequently about child abuse and make it so funny and so disgusting every time. The Five Stars I'm giving this book are a genuine Five Stars, reflecting the pure enjoyment I got from reading it (with Borges, I *did* read most of the best stories the first time around, and filling in the gaps was a little painful)--here the imagination is inexhaustible, and the absurdist gags like a Falling Dog always wind up someplace more interesting than you could expect."
"Donald Barthelme's surreal wit was essential to me as a young writer in my 20s. He was THE American short-story innovator of the postmodern era. Much of his nonpareil compressed charge and humor remains with me, in my own writing."
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