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.
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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.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780141180946
Publisert
2005-04-07
Utgiver
Vendor
Penguin Classics
Vekt
202 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
15 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
272

Biographical note

Dave Eggers is the author of seven novels. His seventh novel Heroes of the Frontier was published with Hamish Hamilton.

Donald Barthelme (1931-1989) was the author of seventeen books and the winner of a National Book Award.