Great Days by Donald Barthelme
Great Days by Donald Barthelme. 1979 Farrar Straus Giroux, first edition, 172 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." Great Days was his eighth work of fiction.
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"On the dedication page of the rebellion, we see the words 'to Clementine.'"
Great Days by Donald Barthelme. 1979 Farrar Straus Giroux, first edition, 172 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." Great Days was his eighth work of fiction.
Condition: VG-, jacket price crossed out, VG-, pencil markings on end paper
"On the dedication page of the rebellion, we see the words 'to Clementine.'"