Forty Stories
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.
Author: Donald Barthelme
Format: Paperback, 272 pages, 130mm x 197mm, 198 g
Published: 2005, Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom
Genre: Short Stories & Fiction Anthologies
Description
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.
Forty Stories