num_pages: 451
description: With these audacious and murderously witty stories, Donald Barthelme threw the preoccupations of our time into the literary equivalent of a Cuisinart and served up a gorgeous salad of American culture, high and low. Here are the 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 Barthelme's work, the sixty stories collected in this volume are triumphs of language and perception, at once unsettling and irresistible.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
language: English
title: Sixty Stories
titlecomplete: Sixty Stories (Penguin Classics)
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 Classics