Barthelme, Donald
Summary: "This comprehensive gathering highlights Barthelme's unique approach to fiction: his upside-down worlds that are nonetheless grounded in fundamental human truths; his scrambled visions of history that yield unexpected insights; and his genius for dialogue, parody, and collage, "the central principle of all art in the twentieth century"..."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARAntrim, Donald.
Summary: "A masterful story collection--heartbreaking and hilarious--from one of America's greatest writers Nothing is simple for the men and women in Donald Antrim's stories. As they do the things we all do--bum a cigarette at a party, stroll with a girlfriend down Madison Avenue, take a kid to the zoo--they're confronted with their own uncooperative selves. These artists, writers, lawyers, teachers,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANTSummary: An anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube with hundreds of strangers. All the ways a trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some never thought of before. Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cemetery Dance Publications 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLISummary: An anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube with hundreds of strangers. All the ways a trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some never thought of before. Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hodder & Stoughton 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Disc 1: Part of the story / Stephen Dobyns ; read by Isaiah Sheffer -- Second-hand man / read by Audra McDonald -- Disc 2: The man who could see radiance / John J. Clayton ; read by Paul Hecht -- Bush pigs / Richard Dooling ; read by Mark Nelson -- Disc 3: The smoker / David Schickler ; read by Robert Sean Leonard -- Night calls / Lisa Fugard ; read by the author.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space 2003