Forty Stories

Informationen zum Autor Dave Eggers is the author of many acclaimed books, including The Circle; What is the What and Zeitoun. He is the founder of the publishing house and magazine McSweeney's and the cofounder of 826 Valencia, a youth writing center that has inspired similar programs around the world. His work has been translated into forty-two languages. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Donald Barthelme, Donald Eggers Barthelme, Barthelme Donald, Dave Eggers, Dave Barthelme Eggers, DaveBarthelme Eggers, Eggers Dave
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.04.2005
• EAN: 9780141180946
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118094-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Short Stories, Anthologies: general