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Barthelme, Donald Forty Stories
Penguin 1-Apr-89 140112456 N Paperback
Amazon.com&newline;Like the title says, here are 40 short works culled from across Barthelme's career. Along with the similarly titled 60 Stories, this book provides one of the best samplings currently in print of Barthelme's unrivaled humor, his melancholy, the poetry of his line, and his considerable intellect. It includes pieces such as the famous &doublequote;Sentence,&doublequote; (a single, several-page-long, unfinished sentence), &doublequote;The Flight of Pigeons From the Palace,&doublequote; one of the writer's illustrated stories, and &doublequote;Overnight To Many Distant Cities.&doublequote; &newline;&newline;From Publishers Weekly&newline;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. He plunges into each situation without preamble, then utilizes sinewy, staccato prose to snare our attention. In &doublequote;The Genius,&doublequote; a man of extraordinary intellect receives endless accolades and homage, but privately, he is just an eccentric inebriate who loathes children and totes important papers in a green Sears, Roebuck tool box. &doublequote;Concerning the Bodyguard&doublequote; is a fusillade of typically gossipy questions about those who shield the famous and mighty: &doublequote;How much does pleasing matter?&doublequote; &doublequote;Is the bodyguard sufficiently well-paid?&doublequote; &doublequote;Is there a pension?&doublequote; In &doublequote;Conversations with Goethe,&doublequote; Barthelme dethrones the renowned German author, who here spouts comical aphorisms such as &doublequote;Art is the four percent interest on the municipal bond of life,&doublequote; and &doublequote;Actors are the Scotch weevils in the salt port of honest effort.&doublequote; As demonstrated throughout this volume, Barthelme's manner of expression is strikingly unique, and his insights are consistently on target. &newline;Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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