Amateurs by Donald Barthelme
Amateurs by Donald Barthelme. 1976 Farrar Straus Giroux, first edition, 184 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." Amateurs was Barthelme's seventh work of fiction.
Condition: VG, some pencil markings on end paper
"Paul and Eugenie went to many erotic films. But the films were not erotic."
Amateurs by Donald Barthelme. 1976 Farrar Straus Giroux, first edition, 184 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." Amateurs was Barthelme's seventh work of fiction.
Condition: VG, some pencil markings on end paper
"Paul and Eugenie went to many erotic films. But the films were not erotic."