Forty Stories (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Donald Barthelme

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141180943 ISBN 13: 9780141180946

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2005

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

...a voice that remains uniquely rewarding and often sounds ageless. (The New York Times Book Review)

About the Author:

Dave Eggers is the author of twelve books, including The Monk of Mokha; The Circle; Heroes of the Frontier; A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award; and What Is the What, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of France's Prix Médicis Etranger. He is the founder of McSweeney's and the cofounder of 826 Valencia, a youth writing center that has inspired similar programs around the world, and of ScholarMatch, which connects donors with students to make college accessible. He is the winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and is the cofounder of Voice of Witness, a book series that illuminates human rights crises through oral history. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letter. His work has been translated into forty- two languages.

www.Internationalcongressofyouthvoices.org
www.826valencia.org
www.scholarmatch.org
www.voiceofwitness.org
www.valentinoachakdeng.org
www.mcsweeneys.net
www.daveeggers.net

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0141180943
• ISBN 13: 9780141180946
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272