With these audacious and murderously witty stories Donald Barthelme threw thepreoccupations of our time into the literary equivalent of a Cuisinart andserved up... » 

With these audacious and murderously witty stories Donald Barthelme threw thepreoccupations of our time into the literary equivalent of a Cuisinart andserved up a gorgeous salad of American culture high and low. Here are theurban upheavals reimagined as frontier myth travelogues through countries thatmight have been created by Kafka cryptic dialogues that bore down to thebedrock of our longings dreams and angsts. Like all of Barthelmes work thesixty stories collected in this volume are triumphs of language and perceptionat once unsettling and irresistible. «