02465cam a2200397 4500 948648722 TxAuBib 20230828120000.0 030605s2003||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2003054902 9780142437391 pbk. 0142437395 pbk. TxAuBib Barthelme, Donald. Short stories Selections. Sixty stories / Donald Barthelme ; introduction by David Gates. 60 stories. New York : Penguin Books, 2003. xxii, 451 p. ; 20 cm. Penguin classics Penguin classics First published 1982. Margins -- A shower of gold -- Me and Miss Mandible -- For I'm the boy -- Will you tell me? -- The balloon -- The president -- Game -- Alice -- Robert Kennedy saved from drowning -- Report -- The dolt -- See the moon? -- The Indian uprising -- Views of my father weeping -- Paraguay -- On angels -- The phantom of the opera's friend -- City life -- Kierkegaard unfair to Schlegel -- The falling dog -- The policemen's ball -- The glass mountain -- Critique de la vie quotidienne -- The sandman -- Traumerei -- The rise of capitalism -- A city of churches -- Daumier -- The party -- Eugenie Grandet -- Nothing : a preliminary account -- A manual for sons -- At the end of the mechanical age -- Rebecca -- The captured woman -- I bought a little city -- The sergeant -- The school -- The great hug -- One work and why we do it -- The crisis -- Cortes and Montezuma -- The new music -- The zombies -- The king of jazz -- Morning -- The death of Edward Lear -- The abduction from the seraglio -- On the steps of the conservatory -- The leap -- Aria -- The emerald -- How I write my songs -- The farewell -- The emperor -- Thailand -- Heroes -- Bishop -- Grandmother's house. 12-up. 20230828. Experimental fiction, American. Short stories, American. Experimental fiction. Short stories. Penguin classics. Penguin classics. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0716/2003054902-b.html Contributor biographical information https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0716/2003054902-d.html Publisher description QS7