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.
| ISBN: | 9780141180946 |
| Publication date: | 7th April 2005 |
| Author: | Dave Eggers, Donald Barthelme |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 272 pages |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Shorter Reads |