Paradise (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) - Softcover

Barthelme, Donald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564784037 ISBN 13: 9781564784032

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, 2009

Synopsis

"No other word for it: a charming book." Peter S. Prescott, Newsweek

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Review:

"There's nothing in art as dazzling, and bewildering, as a fully achieved style at its apex....Though superficially Paradise seems to be a modest little caprice, Barthelme strikes every note...and the cascade of consonances he pours out really does seem to offer too much beauty for a conventional 1987 sensibility to see the sense behind it."

Paradise is agile, witty and lightened by Barthelme's canny disassociations, and it is one of the blackest things he has written. --Richard Eder

Although Donald Barthelme has written 12 previous books of fiction containing some of the most innovative influential stories of our day reading Paradise is a shock and a revelation. --Elizabeth Jolley

There's nothing in art as dazzling and bewildering as a fully achieved style at its apex . . . Though superficially Paradise seems to be a modest little caprice, Barthelme strikes every note . . . and the cascade of consonances he pours out really does seem to offer too much beauty for a conventional 1987 sensibility to see the sense behind it. --Michael Feingold

"No other word for it: a charming book."--Peter S. Prescott, "Newsweek"

"No other word for it: a charming book."-Peter S. Prescott, "Newsweek"

About this edition

• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1564784037
• ISBN 13: 9781564784032
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208