Forty Stories

Forty Stories - Paperback

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Forty Stories - Paperback

Forty Stories - Paperback

by Donald Barthelme
$18.00
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Witty, surreal, and endlessly inventive, Forty Stories is Barthelme at his finest--dismantling convention, bending language, and turning fiction into pure mischief.

Donald Barthelme is a master of the unexpected, a writer who bends fiction into strange and exhilarating shapes. In Forty Stories, the companion to Sixty Stories, he delivers a dazzling collection of tales--each one a collision of wit, absurdity, and sharp social insight.

With a signature postmodern style that blends pastiche, collage, and metafiction, Barthelme reinvents storytelling at every turn. He takes on subjects as varied as Paul Klee, Goethe, Captain Blood, modern courtship, marriage, divorce, and armadillos, but his true fascination lies in language itself--how it twists, contradicts, and reveals the absurdity of contemporary life. Packed with irony, surreal imagery, and deadpan humor, these stories probe authority, relationships, and existential anxieties, all while keeping the reader deliciously off-balance.

At once playful and profound, fragmented yet deeply resonant, Forty Stories is a brilliant showcase of Barthelme's ability to subvert expectations and transform the ordinary into something extraordinary. For readers who crave fiction that defies convention, this collection is an invitation to experience storytelling at its most fearless.
ISBN9781250420299
Author Donald Barthelme
PublisherPicador USA
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedMay 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages256
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Forty Stories

Forty Stories - Paperback

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By Donald Barthelme

About Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme (1931-1989) was a longtime contributor to The New Yorker, winner of a National Book Award, a director of PEN and the Authors Guild, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His sixteen books--including Snow White, The Dead Father, and City Life--substantially redefined American short fiction for our time.

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