Sixty Stories - Hardcover

Barthelme, Donald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399126597 ISBN 13: 9780399126598

Publisher: Putnam Adult, 1981

Synopsis

A retrospective collection of Donald Barthelme's most notable writings includes "Me and Miss Mandible," "Views of My Father Weeping," "The King of Jazz," nine new stories, and other outstanding selections

About this title

Review:

This excellent 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--and wrote many of the most beautiful sentences in the English language. Due to the unfortunate discontinuance of many of Barthelme's titles, 60 Stories now stands as one of the broadest overviews of his work, containing selections from eight previously published books, as well as a number of other short works that had been otherwise uncollected.

About the Author:

Donald Barthelme (1931-1989) published twelve books, including two novels and a prize-winning children's book. He was a regular contributor to the New Yorker and taught creative writing at the University of Houston. In his career, he won a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Book Award, and a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, among others.

About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Adult
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0399126597
• ISBN 13: 9780399126598
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 457