Overnight to Many Distant Cities by Donald Barthelme
Overnight to Many Distant Cities by Donald Barthelme. 1983 Putnam, first edition, 174 pages. Barthelme was a novelist and short story writer who was frequently published in the New Yorker. According to the New York Times obituary, "In public appearances and in print, Mr. Barthelme often defended what he termed ''the alleged post-modernists'' in literature. He placed himself in this category and included, among Americans, John Barth, John Hawkes, William Gass, Robert Coover and Thomas Pynchon. Among Europeans, he named Peter Handke, Thomas Bernhard and Italo Calvino." Overnight was his eleventh work of fiction.
Includes press photo and review note.
Condition: VG-, small tear on jacket spine, VG- dents from paperclips.
"My father's kingdom was and is, all authorities agree, large."
Overnight to Many Distant Cities by Donald Barthelme. 1983 Putnam, first edition, 174 pages. Barthelme was a novelist and short story writer who was frequently published in the New Yorker. According to the New York Times obituary, "In public appearances and in print, Mr. Barthelme often defended what he termed ''the alleged post-modernists'' in literature. He placed himself in this category and included, among Americans, John Barth, John Hawkes, William Gass, Robert Coover and Thomas Pynchon. Among Europeans, he named Peter Handke, Thomas Bernhard and Italo Calvino." Overnight was his eleventh work of fiction.
Includes press photo and review note.
Condition: VG-, small tear on jacket spine, VG- dents from paperclips.
"My father's kingdom was and is, all authorities agree, large."