Product Description: "Query: Would it be a serious breach of etiquette to run out on my own wedding?"This is the question Becky Steele asks herself as she clings to the window ledge of her parents’ bathroom, grimly regarding the ten-foot drop into the dustbins below...read more

Product Description: ‘Query: Would it be a serious breach of etiquette to run out on my own wedding?’ This is the question Becky Steele asks herself as she clings to the window ledge of her parents’ bathroom, grimly regarding the ten-foot drop into the dustbins below...read more

Product Description: 'I said that although hanging Colby was almost certainly against the law, we had a perfect moral right to do so because he was our friend, belonged to us in various important senses, and he had after all gone too far.' Donald Barthelme is a puckish player with language, a writer of short but endlessly rewarding comic gems, a thinker and an experimenter...read more

Product Description: Donald Barthelme was one of the most influential and inventive writers of the 20th century. In this volume of unpublished and previously uncollected stories, he transforms the absurd and strange into the real in his usual epiphanic, engaging, and richly textured style...read more

When Mathilda discovers a mysterious Chinese house in her backyard, she enters a new world of imagination and adventure.

Product Description: In The King, a retelling of Le Morte D'Arthur, Donald Barthelme moves the chivalrous Knights of the Round Table to the cruelty of the Second World War. Dunkirk has fallen, Europe is at the breaking point, Ezra Pound and Lord Haw-Haw are poisoning the radio waves, Mordred has fled to Nazi Germany, and King Arthur and his worshipful Knights are deep in the fighting...read more

As a ghost for a year, Simon, a fifty-year-old man, wanders through New York City holding an imaginative conversation with the idea of Paradise and encountering such purposeful individuals as an angry lawyer, a sensual poet, and his own illegitimate half-brother

The late National Book Award-winning author offers a collection of short stories that reflects society's follies and foibles--including, 'At the Tolstoy Museum,' 'Sentence,' and 'Porcupines at the University'--addressing Goethe, modern courtship, armadillos, marriage and divorce, and other themes. Reprint.

“There is nothing unusual about the foot, except that it is seven meters high.” Nineteen people are dragging, by means of a cable, an immense carcass through the countryside. The carcass is that of the Dead Father, a half-dead, half-alive, part-mechanical, wise, vain, powerful being who still has hopes for himself, although he is, effectively, dead. Thomas, Julie, Edmund, Emma, and the others variously insult, placate, cater to, and defend the Dead Father as the procession moves through the country of the Wends, the territory of the Great Father Serpent, and a variety of encounters and explorations toward its mysterious goal.In the austere, extraordinary prose that strongly influenced a generation of fiction writers, Donald Barthelme offered in The Dead Father a glimpse into his unique fictional universe: a many-shaded landscape of first and last things, striking, comic, manic, inevitable.

A retrospective collection of Donald Barthelme's most notable writings includes 'Me and Miss Mandible,' 'Views of My Father Weeping,' 'The King of Jazz,' nine new stories, and other outstanding selections

Product Description: When Donald Barthelme died at the age of 54, he was perhaps the most imitated (if not emulated) practitioner of American literature. Caustic, slyly observant, transgressive, verbally scintillating, Barthelme's essays, stories, and novels redefined a generation of American letters and remain unparalleled for the way they capture our national pastimes and obsessions, but most of all for the way they caputure the strangeness of life...read more

A collection of writings by the late author features previously unpublished works, including stage and radio plays, collage stories, and other short works (view table of contents)

The second collection of the late writer's nonfiction includes his uncollected essays--some of them from The New Yorker magazine--as well as several previously unpublished interviews, encompassing his views on art, film, and city life. (view table of contents)

An inventive, satiric modern retelling of the classic fairy tale provides an incisive and biting commentary on the absurdities and complexities of modern life. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Thomas Pynchon provides the introduction to a collection of work by the late writer, featuring previously unpublished work and the actual stage script for Snow White, in the first of a three-volume series.

The regular customers at a city bar talk about their lives and problems

A collection of eleven astonishing short stories focus on a group of people facing unusual situations or turning-points in their lives and the diverse consequences and alternatives of their futures

This new collection of stories marks a departure in Barthelme's work with the introduction of a new mode in which he abandons all forms of characterization other than dialogue in an attempt to shift and alter reader expectations and perceptions

Parodies, political satires, and fables demonstrate the author's reaction to contemporary issues and situations

Product Description: Come Back, Dr. Caligari - Donald Barthelme / Little Brown & Co. Publishers

Product Description: Fifteen short stories by author/satirist Barthelme.