Forty Stories
by Dave Eggers, Donald Barthelme
272 pages· 2012· ISBN 9780141389325
About
This collection of pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces is a companion to Sixty Stories, Barthelme's earlier retrospective volume. Barthelme spotlights the idiosyncratic, haughty, sometimes downright ludicrous behavior of human beings, but it is style rather than content which takes precedence.
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