false 118345 10 This excellent collection of Donald Barthelme's literary output during the 1960s and 1970s covers the period when the writer came to prominence--producing the stories, satires, parodies, and other formal experiments that altered fiction as we know it--and wrote many of the most beautiful sentences in the English language. Due to the unfortunate discontinuance of many of Barthelme's titles, <i>60 Stories</i> now stands as one of the broadest overviews of his work, containing selections from eight previously published books, as well as a number of other short works that had been otherwise uncollected. 1574240 1981 Sixty Stories (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) total:908|5:473|4:324|3:91|2:18|1:2| 908 3972 1398 101 5 9 false false Thu May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu May 22 16:03:59 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 08 15:40:35 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Fri Apr 13 17:11:25 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 20:50:33 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 1 false false Fri Aug 31 15:24:40 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 16 21:30:45 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 30 19:54:44 -0700 2007 more...]]> 0 1 false false Sat Sep 19 06:12:31 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 06:19:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 18:09:45 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 18:35:55 -0700 2009
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