A glass mountain sits in the middle of a city and at the top sits a 'beautiful, enchanted symbol'...

'I said that although hanging Colby was almost certainly against the law, we had a perfect moral ...

This collection of pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces is a companion to Sixty Stories, Barthelme's...

"e;I Bought a Little City [is] a take on the role that a writer has in writing a story - play...

Originally published in 1967 by Atheneum.

The Dead Father is a gargantuan half-dead, half-alive, part mechanical, wise, vain, powerful bein...

Donald Barthelme (1931-1989) published twelve books, including two novels and a prize-winning chi...

With these audacious and murderously witty stories, Donald Barthelme threw the preoccupations of ...

This collection of pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces is a companion to Sixty Stories, Barthelme's...

'No other word for it: a charming book.' Peter S. Prescott, Newsweek