Sixty Stories
by Barthelme, Donald; Gates, DavidFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-09-30
Publisher(s): Penguin Classics
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Summary
With these audacious and murderously witty stories, Donald Barthelme threw the preoccupations of our time into the literary equivalent of a Cuisinart and served up a gorgeous salad of American culture, high and low. Here are the urban upheavals reimagined as frontier myth; travelogues through countries that might have been created by Kafka; cryptic dialogues that bore down to the bedrock of our longings, dreams, and angsts. Like all of Barthelme's work, the sixty stories collected in this volume are triumphs of language and perception, at once unsettling and irresistible.
Author Biography
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.
David Gates is a book critic at Newsweek. He is the author of three acclaimed works of fiction.
David Gates is a book critic at Newsweek. He is the author of three acclaimed works of fiction.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| Margins | p. 1 |
| A Shower of Gold | p. 7 |
| Me and Miss Mandible | p. 17 |
| For I'm the Boy | p. 29 |
| Will You Tell Me? | p. 37 |
| The Balloon | p. 46 |
| The President | p. 52 |
| Game | p. 56 |
| Alice | p. 61 |
| Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning | p. 68 |
| Report | p. 78 |
| The Dolt | p. 83 |
| See the Moon? | p. 90 |
| The Indian Uprising | p. 102 |
| Views of My Father Weeping | p. 109 |
| Paraguay | p. 121 |
| On Angels | p. 129 |
| The Phantom of the Opera's Friend | p. 132 |
| City Life | p. 137 |
| Kierkegaard Unfair to Schlegel | p. 154 |
| The Falling Dog | p. 163 |
| The Policemen's Ball | p. 169 |
| The Glass Mountain | p. 172 |
| Critique de la Vie Quotidienne | p. 177 |
| The Sandman | p. 185 |
| Traumerei | p. 193 |
| The Rise of Capitalism | p. 198 |
| A City of Churches | p. 203 |
| Daumier | p. 208 |
| The Party | p. 225 |
| Eugenie Grandet | p. 230 |
| Nothing: A Preliminary Account | p. 239 |
| A Manual for Sons | p. 243 |
| At the End of the Mechanical Age | p. 267 |
| Rebecca | p. 275 |
| The Captured Woman | p. 280 |
| I Bought a Little City | p. 290 |
| The Sergeant | p. 297 |
| The School | p. 304 |
| The Great Hug | p. 308 |
| Our Work and Why We Do It | p. 312 |
| The Crisis | p. 318 |
| Cortes and Montezuma | p. 323 |
| The New Music | p. 332 |
| The Zombies | p. 345 |
| The King of Jazz | p. 349 |
| Morning | p. 354 |
| The Death of Edward Lear | p. 359 |
| The Abduction from the Seraglio | p. 363 |
| On the Steps of the Conservatory | p. 367 |
| The Leap | p. 374 |
| Aria | p. 381 |
| The Emerald | p. 384 |
| How I Write My Songs | p. 413 |
| The Farewell | p. 419 |
| The Emperor | p. 424 |
| Thailand | p. 428 |
| Heroes | p. 432 |
| Bishop | p. 438 |
| Grandmother's House | p. 444 |
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