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  • Sixty Stories

    by Donald Barthelme ...
    Sixty Stories brings together Barthelme’s most famous works and hidden gems—a dazzling, subversive collection where language bends, reality warps, and the absurd reigns supreme.With these subversive, razor-sharp stories, Donald Barthelme dismantles the familiar and rearranges it into something dazzlingly strange. Sixty Stories is a literary fun house where language is bent, meaning is slippery, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Forty Stories

    by Donald Barthelme ...
    Witty, surreal, and endlessly inventive, Forty Stories is Barthelme at his finest—dismantling convention, bending language, and turning fiction into pure mischief.Donald Barthelme is a master of the unexpected, a writer who bends fiction into strange and exhilarating shapes. In Forty Stories, the companion to Sixty Stories, he delivers a dazzling collection of tales—each one a collision of wit, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Teachings of Don B.

    Satires, Parodies, Fables, Illustrated Stories, and Plays

    by Donald Barthelme ...
    "Barthelme . . . happens to be one of a handful of American authors, there to make us look bad, who know instinctively how to stash the merchandise, bamboozle the inspectors, and smuggle their nocturnal contraband right on past the checkpoints of daylight 'reality.'" —Thomas Pynchon, from the IntroductionSixty–three rare or previously uncollected works by a master of the American short story form ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Donald Barthelme: Collected Stories (LOA #343)

    by Donald Barthelme ...
    The definitive collection of a twentieth-century master of the short story, whose unforgettable inventions revolutionized the formThe short stories of Donald Barthelme, revered by the likes of Thomas Pynchon and George Saunders, are gems of invention and pathos that have dazzled and delighted readers since the 1960s. Here, for the first time, these essential stories are preserved as they were ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Dead Father

    by Donald Barthelme ...
    Series series FSG Classics
    A wildly imaginative, absurdist adventure that redefines the boundaries of fiction.In The Dead Father, Donald Barthelme crafts a gargantuan half-dead, half-alive, part mechanical being who, despite his condition, still clings to his hopes and vanities. This wise yet powerful figure is being dragged by a cable toward a mysterious goal, setting the stage for an extraordinary journey. Through the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Not-Knowing

    The Essays and Interviews

    by Donald Barthelme, Kim Herzinger ...
    The wildly varied essays in Not–Knowing combine to form a posthumous manifesto of one of America's masters of literary experiment. Here are Barthelme's thoughts on writing (his own and others); his observations on art, architecture, film, and city life; interviews, including two previously unpublished; and meditations on everything from Superman III to the art of rendering "Melancholy Baby" on ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Flying to America

    45 More Stories

    by Donald Barthelme ...
    Donald Barthelme was one of the most influential and inventive writers of the 20th century. In this volume of unpublished and previously uncollected stories, he transforms the absurd and strange into the real in his usual epiphanic, engaging, and richly textured style. The stories delve further into themes that often interested Barthelme: the perils of the unfulfilled existence; the relationships ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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    American Classics

    by Amy Tan, Donald Barthelme, Alice Walker, Edgar Allan Poe, Eudora Welty, John Cheever, John Sayles, Joyce Carol Oates ...
    Narrated by Freda Foh Shen, David Strathairn, Carmen De Lavallade, Christine Baranski, Jerry Stiller, Malachy McCourt, Rene Aubergenois, Stockard Channing ...
    Series series Selected Shorts

    Unabridged

    3 hours 45 min

    A compilation of classic tales by great American writers performed by terrific actors, with a lineup including Pulitzer Prize winners, National Book Award winners, and PEN Award winners. ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Touch of Magic, A

    by Andrew Lam, Aimee Bender, Donald Barthelme, Haruki Murakami, Jonathan Safran Foer, Kevin Brockmeier, Saki, W. W. Jacobs ...
    Narrated by James Naughton, Anthony Rapp, Bernadette Quigley, Dana Ivey, Daniel Gerroll, Jerry Zaks, John Lithgow, Maria Tucci, Rene Auberjonois ...
    Series series Selected Shorts

    Unabridged

    2 hours 13 min

    By turns funny, moving, romantic and surreal, and filled with unexpected twists and turns, each of the tales on this lineup has a magical element.Andrew Lam's "The Palmist", performed by James Naughton. A chance encounter on a bus between a fortune-teller and a teenage boy.W. W. Jacobs' "The Monkey's Paw", performed by John Lithgow. A wonderful ghost story about a trinket with terrible powers.Saki ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Flora Thomson-DeVeaux ...
    Translated by Flora Thomson-DeVeaux ...
    **"One of the wittiest, most playful, and . . . most alive and ageless books ever written." --Dave Eggers, The New YorkerA revelatory new translation of the playful, incomparable masterpiece of one of the greatest Black authors in the AmericasA Penguin Classic**The mixed-race grandson of ex-slaves, Machado de Assis is not only Brazil's most celebrated writer but also a writer of world stature, who ... Read more

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  • On the Edge of Night and Day

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    A remote outpost. An alien life form. A mystery.Stella had her heart set on spending her work term as part of the second mission to the core of New Venus. Instead, she’s assigned to a remote science outpost on a forgotten moon.To make things worse, she’s stuck with Dizzy—her chaotic, endlessly curious classmate who talks too much, breaks too many rules, and seems determined to actually enjoy their ... Read more

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