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Overview

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.
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Overview

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.

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Anatole Broyard
"Donald Bathelme may have influenced the short story in his time as much as Henningway and O'Hara did in theirs. 60 Stories is a whole earth catalog of life in our time." -- The New York Times
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"If you read straight through these stories you're bound to be struck by the volume's cohesiveness. Donald Bathelme's writing is from the outset firm and sure, entirely his own. He experiments as freely nowadays as he did when younger, and his experiments reaveal a rare exhuberance, an unfaiing joy in words and possibilities." -- Detroit News

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780142437391
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 9/2/2003
  • Pages: 480
  • Sales rank: 114,921
  • Series: Penguin Classics Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.07 (w) x 7.74 (h) x 0.85 (d)

Meet 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.

David Gates is a book critic at Newsweek. He is the author of three acclaimed works of fiction.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Margins 1
A Shower of Gold 7
Me and Miss Mandible 17
For I'm the Boy 29
Will You Tell Me? 37
The Balloon 46
The President 52
Game 56
Alice 61
Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning 68
Report 78
The Dolt 83
See the Moon? 90
The Indian Uprising 102
Views of My Father Weeping 109
Paraguay 121
On Angels 129
The Phantom of the Opera's Friend 132
City Life 137
Kierkegaard Unfair to Schlegel 154
The Falling Dog 163
The Policemen's Ball 169
The Glass Mountain 172
Critique de la Vie Quotidienne 177
The Sandman 185
Traumerei 193
The Rise of Capitalism 198
A City of Churches 203
Daumier 208
The Party 225
Eugenie Grandet 230
Nothing: A Preliminary Account 239
A Manual for Sons 243
At the End of the Mechanical Age 267
Rebecca 275
The Captured Woman 280
I Bought a Little City 290
The Sergeant 297
The School 304
The Great Hug 308
Our Work and Why We Do It 312
The Crisis 318
Cortes and Montezuma 323
The New Music 332
The Zombies 345
The King of Jazz 349
Morning 354
The Death of Edward Lear 359
The Abduction from the Seraglio 363
On the Steps of the Conservatory 367
The Leap 374
Aria 381
The Emerald 384
How I Write My Songs 413
The Farewell 419
The Emperor 424
Thailand 428
Heroes 432
Bishop 438
Grandmother's House 444
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  • Posted June 14, 2011

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    the pleasure of the text.

    Postmodern/avant-garde/experimental authors tend to range from excellent to unreadable. Barthelme is one of the figures (along with Pynchon, Wallace, and Gaddis) that gives this new breed of weird, challenging fiction a good name. He was peers with John Barth. Interesting story: one time, an interviewer asked Barthelme his advice for fiction writers. He said they should read every philosophy book from Plato to the present. Another reviewer posed the same question to John Barth, repeated what Barthelme said, and Barth answered, "read every piece of fiction from Gilgamesh to the present." Reading his fiction, you can tell the guy read everything. Many of his stories parody writing itself, with stories written as spoofs of travel brochures and encyclopedia listings. I like this collection the most out of all of his work.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 16, 2010

    Mostly incoherent

    I fail to understand the high praise Barthelme gets; most of these stories are incoherent and pointless to me, and I do not foresee a desire to read them again at any time later in my life. If you expect that a `story' tells a story, you will be disappointed. Most of the texts in these `60 Stories' would not suffer if you rearranged the paragraphs, or left out some (even many) sentences. Of course, this leaves much room for interpretation and hermeneutics, so it is perhaps understandable if these texts are found useful in literature classes. The back cover blurb cites a New York Times review which states "Sixty Stories is a Whole Earth Catalogue of life in our time", so perhaps this book is more interesting for those readers who like to browse a list of catalogue items.

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  • Posted June 5, 2009

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    Will you tell me why this book was published?

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