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Forty Stories
  • Published: 23 October 2013
  • ISBN: 9780141389325
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256

Forty Stories

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23 Oct 2013
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26 Apr 2005
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This collection of pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces is a companion to Sixty Stories, Barthelme's earlier retrospective volume. Barthelme spotlights the idiosyncratic, haughty, sometimes downright ludicrous behavior of human beings, but it is style rather than content which takes precedence.
  • Published: 23 October 2013
  • ISBN: 9780141389325
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256
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Dave Eggers

DAVE EGGERS is the author of The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, A Hologram for the King, What Is the What, and The Museum of Rain, among other books. He is the cofounder of 826 National, a network of youth writing centers, and Art + Water, a nonprofit visual art hub on San Francisco’s waterfront. A classically trained artist and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Eggers has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and is the recipient of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the American Book Award. In 2024, The Eyes and the Impossible was awarded the Newbery Medal.


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