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.
Forty Stories
โ Scribed by Anton Chekhov
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Books
- Year
- 2011;1991
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 220 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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