Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby
Author(s): Donald Barthelme
'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. In these nine short stories, whether writing about a hairy, donkeyish king or a touching, private gesture of city-sized proportions, his is a surreal, deadpan genius. This book includes "Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby", "The Glass Mountain", "I Bought a Little City", "The Palace at Four A.M.", "Chablis", "The School", "Margins", "Game", and "The Balloon".
Product Information
Donald Barthelme (1931-1989) published twelve books, including two novels and a prize-winning children's book. He was a regular contributor to the New Yorker and taught creative writing at the University of Houston. In his career, he won a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Book Award, and a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, among others.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Penguin Classics
- : 0.066
- : 01 February 2011
- : 161mm X 111mm X 7mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 April 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : Donald Barthelme
- : Paperback
- : 311
- : 96