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Title	:	Sixty Stories
Author	:	Donald Barthelme
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Penguin Modern Classics
Pages	:	Pages: 451 pages
Published	:	April 7th 2005 by Penguin Books Ltd (first published September 14th 1981)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. Literature. American

Sixty Stories Paperback | Pages: 451 pages

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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.

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Original Title:	Sixty Stories
ISBN:	0141180935 (ISBN13: 9780141180939)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (1982), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (1981)

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well, i didn't finish sixty stories, but i did get about 3/4 of the way through it and it took me a while, so i feel duty-bound to document it. one of the traits i admire most in writers is the ability to extend themselves out of veiled autobiography and write in and through the eyes of someone else. one of the traits i most disdain in writers is a tendency towards the esoteric, ignoring the critical elements of a good story. Barthelme is both of these writers. the stories with real characters

Barthelme is the short story writer for me. I loved these mad, witty, clever but not clever-clever, surreal and speculative stories. Barthelme has a style and range utterly unique to him and uses a fragmented, avant-garde approach to tell his cryptic and weirdly moving stories.I can't pick a favourite from these. They were dazzling, one and all. Hooray for discovering new writers!

How can I justify my indifference to Donald Barthelme? Im not sure I can. No doubt these stories are/were innovative, unique, at times wildly inventive. Theyre also, for the most part, easy to read, not daunting, but on the other hand not invitingnot to me anyway. For a few weeks I dipped into 60 Stories with moderate enjoyment, but soon noticed it was my go to books in times of distraction, when something more demanding would have tested my fractured concentration. Dont get me wrong, hes

I was half way through the book when I realized that these stories serve as a kind of Rorschach Test, always in movement, always mind-boggling, and forever inspiring. Some of the "dialogues" can seem overly long and pedantic, but when it comes to Barthelme, can there be such terms? They seem to be much of the point. As an earlier review mentioned, these short pieces have the tendency to rip your mind to shreds, without any hope for recovery throughout. Many stories in this collection bear the

Postmodern humor of a sort that might remind readers of the work of writers like Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon or Robert Coover. Barthelme's fictions are formally experimental, employing unconventional methods of storytelling and frequently depicting unreal situations. Narrators in a few of them are unreliable; in others, narration is completely absent, the "stories" consisting entirely of unattributed dialogue.Along with stories selected from earlier Barthelme collections such as Unspeakable

Dazzling collection of postmodern blisters and blasters, usually as short as three, four or five pages but some as long as twelve pages, stories written in dialogue or lists or letters or narrative, covering topics from highbrow culture to the lowbrow scuzzy, from the everyday to the sensational and historic, an innovative collection from one of the most perceptive wordsmiths ever to put pen to paper or fingers to typewriter. Many are the stories I found wickedly astute, including these two:

Borges for depressed people.