Barthelme, Donald

Sixty stories by Donald Barthelme ( Book )
30 editions published between 1981 and 2005 in English and held by 1,787 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Margins; A Shower of Gold; Me and Miss Mandible; For I'm the Boy; Will You Tell Me?; The Balloon; The President; Game; Alice; Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning; Report; The Dolt; See the Moon?; The Indian Uprising; Views of My Father Weeping; Paraguay; On Angels; The Phantom of the Opera's Friend; City Life; Kierkegaard Unfair to Schlegel; The Falling Dog; The Policemen's Ball; The Glass Mountain; Critique de la Vie Quotidienne; The Sandman; Traumerei; The Rise of Capitalism; A City of Churches; Daumier; The Party; Eugenei Grandet; Nothing: A Preliminary Account; A Manual for Sons; At the End of the Mechanical Age; Rebecca; The Captured Woman; I Bought a Little City; the Sergeant; The School; The Great Hug; Our Work and Why We Do It; The Crisis; Cortes and Montezuma; The New Music; The Zombies; The King of Jazz; Morning; The Death of Edward Lear; The Abduction from the Seraglio; On the Steps of the Conservatory; The Leap; Aria; The Emerald; How I Write My Songs; The Farewell; The Emperor; Thailand; Heroes; Bishop; Grandmother's House

The dead father by Donald Barthelme ( Book )
15 editions published between 1975 and 2004 in English and held by 1,342 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Forty stories by Donald Barthelme ( Book )
21 editions published between 1987 and 2005 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,338 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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

City life by Donald Barthelme ( Book )
19 editions published between 1969 and 1978 in 4 languages and held by 1,331 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Snow White by Donald Barthelme ( Book )
65 editions published between 1965 and 2002 in 4 languages and held by 1,302 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Novel of the absurd, paraphrasing the familiar fairy tale. Modern setting

Sadness by Donald Barthelme ( Book )
10 editions published between 1972 and 1980 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,247 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Paradise by Donald Barthelme ( Book )
6 editions published between 1986 and 2005 in English and held by 1,127 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Simon, a middle-aged architect separated from his wife, is given the chance to live out a stereotypical male fantasy: freed from the travails of married life, he ends up living with three nubile lingerie models who use him as a sexual object. Set in the 1980s, there's further tension between Simon's desire to exploit this stereotypical fantasy and his (as well as the author's) desire to treat the women as human beings, despite the women's claims that Simon can't distinguish between their personalities. Employing a variety of forms, Barthelme gracefully plays with this setup, creating a story that's not just funny--although it's definitely that--but actually quite melancholy, as Simon knows that the women's departure is inevitable, that this "paradise" will come to an end, and that he'll be left with only an empty house, booze, and regrets about chances not taken. --Powells

Great days by Donald Barthelme ( Book )
6 editions published between 1978 and 1980 in English and held by 1,087 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Amateurs by Donald Barthelme ( Book )
3 editions published between 1976 and 1977 in English and held by 1,078 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Guilty pleasures by Donald Barthelme ( Book )
7 editions published between 1974 and 1976 in English and held by 1,035 WorldCat member libraries worldwide