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Title: The King by Donald Barthelme, Barry Moser ISBN: 0140149929 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: May, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: Read this.
Comment: I paid a dollar for this book. God Bless used bookstores who carry out-of-print titles on clearance. The King is probably flawless - I've read it 10 or 11 times now, and each time the language is always as fresh as the previous reading. Donald Barthelme is indisputably the Alpha and Omega of contemporary American short fiction, and this is his very best. If you're not familiar with his stuff, go grab one of the anthologies (60 or 40 Stories), find a good place to read, and become quietly enthralled. The fact that this book is out-of-print either testifies to the current lifeless state of the publishing industry, or the existence of a cold, malevolent trickster-god. If you have personal contact with ANYONE involved in the publishing industry, PLEASE encourage them to read The King, to reproduce it, to lavish it with praise and vigorous marketing, etc. D.B. has slipped out of the American literary consciousness - if that isn't an oxymoron - these last ten years, being instead cruelly relegated to the pomp and ineffectual circumstance of that icy ninth ring of hell, THE LAND OF GRADUATE STUDIES. Unacceptable. Find this book, pay the search fee, abuse the mass-quantity machines at Kinko's, and leave copies on the street corners. Brighten a stranger's day.
Rating: 5
Summary: I annoyed everyone around me with this book!
Comment: Donald Barthelme's "The King" is the loudest laugh I've ever had from a book! It is the tale of Arthur and his knights fighting World War II, though the tale is told primarily through these characters' sad and outdated dialogue. I read this book almost non-stop through breakfast at a coffee shop, a trounce through my favorite bookstore and then dinner, all the while grabbing anyone close at hand to read passages to. Nasty looks and possibly even violent reactions would not assuage me, for the humor, joy and pure inventiveness of Barthelme's writing kept me as humble and courteous as a chivalrous knight
Rating: 5
Summary: You absolutely must find and buy and -- finally -- READ this
Comment: Hitler and King Arthur come to blows in this, a virtually dialogue-only novel. Absolutely incredible. Will be one of the top five novels you've ever read
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Title: Paradise (Contemporary American Fiction) by Donald Barthelme ISBN: 0140103589 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: December, 1987 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: The Dead Father by Donald Barthelme ISBN: 0374528225 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux (Pap) Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: SNOW WHITE by Donald Barthelme ISBN: 0684824795 Publisher: Scribner Paperback Fiction Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Guilty Pleasures by Donald Barthelme ISBN: 0385285604 Publisher: Delacorte Press Pub. Date: March, 1976 List Price(USD): $2.65 |
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Title: Amateurs by Donald Barthelme ISBN: 0671812467 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: November, 1977 List Price(USD): $1.95 |
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