num_pages: 480
description: With these audacious and murderous witty stories, Donald Barthelme threw the preoccupation of our time into the literary equivalent of a Cuisinart and served up a gorgeous salad of American culture, high and low. Here are urban upheavals reimagined as frontier myth; travelogues through countries that might have been created by Kafka; cryptic dialogues that bore down to the bedrock of our longings, dreams, and angsts. Like all of Donald's work, the sixty stories collected in this volume are triumphs of language and perception, at once unsettling and irresistible.
language: English
title: Sixty Stories
titlecomplete: Sixty Stories
genres: Classics, Fiction, Short Stories, The United States Of America, Humor, Short Story Collection, 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, American
ratings_count: 5874
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd