Donald Barthelme
Author
Language
English
Description
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, marked by the imaginative use of language that influenced a generation of fiction writers, Donald Barthelme offered a glimpse into his fictional universe. As Donald Antrim writes in his introduction, "Reading The Dead...
8) Snow White
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1967.
Language
English
Description
Novel of the absurd, paraphrasing the familiar fairy tale. Modern setting.
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
©1983
Language
English
Description
" ... Donald Barthelme's new collection ... takes us from New York to Tokyo to Copenhagen to Barcelona to Paris to the Radiant City of Le Corbusier, balancing twelve of his widely celebrated short stories against an equal number of brief visionary texts, new in his work, that provide a lovely, haunting counterpoint"--From dust jacket.
Author
Series
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This comprehensive gathering highlights Barthelme's unique approach to fiction: his upside-down worlds that are nonetheless grounded in fundamental human truths; his scrambled visions of history that yield unexpected insights; and his genius for dialogue, parody, and collage, "the central principle of all art in the twentieth century"..."
14) Sadness
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[1972]
Language
English
Description
Short stories, chiefly reprinted from the New Yorker.
Author
Publisher
Symphony Space, Inc
Language
English
Description
"...he took his hands off the controls in a paroxysm of joy and shouted, 'Strap on your safety belt, Mrs. Gadshill! We're going to make a loop-the-loop!'"
—From Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor by John Cheever
A compilation of classic tales by great American writers performed by terrific actors, with a lineup including Pulitzer Prize winners, National Book Award winners, and PEN Award winners.
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