Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby - Softcover

Barthelme, Donald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141195770 ISBN 13: 9780141195773

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2011

Synopsis

'I said that although hanging Colby was almost certainly against the law, we had a perfect moral right to do so because he was our friend, belonged to us in various important senses, and he had after all gone too far.'

Donald Barthelme is a puckish player with language, a writer of short but endlessly rewarding comic gems, a thinker and an experimenter. In these nine short stories, whether writing about a hairy, donkeyish king or a touching, private gesture of city-sized proportions, his is a surreal, deadpan genius.

This book includes Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby, The Glass Mountain, I Bought a Little City, The Palace at Four A.M., Chablis, The School, Margins, Game and The Balloon.

About this title

About 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0141195770
• ISBN 13: 9780141195773
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96