Donald Barthelme

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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1968
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Fairytale Retellings: Snow White

Snow White (Jun-1996)

Book List in Order: 21 titles

  • Unspeakable Practices

  • Come Back, Dr. Caligari

  • City Life

  • The Dead Father

    The Dead Father is a gargantuan half-dead, half-alive, part mechanical, wise, vain, powerful being who still has hopes for himself--even while he is being dragged by means of a cable toward a mysterious goal. In this extraordinary novel, marked by th...

  • Great Days

    This new collection of stories marks a departure in Barthelme's work with the introduction of a new mode in which he abandons all forms of characterization other than dialogue in an attempt to shift and alter reader expectations and perceptions...

  • Grt Days

  • Sadness

    Masterpiece stories of wit, whimsy and satire. A saint struggling with the greatest of all temptations: daily life. A genius proposes a world inventory of genius to create a better life, but he cannot bear the company. Family life trembles with enoug...

  • Sixty Stories

    A retrospective collection of Donald Barthelme's most notable writings includes "Me and Miss Mandible," "Views of My Father Weeping," "The King of Jazz," nine new stories, and other outstanding selections...

  • Overnight To Distant



  • Overnight to Many Distant Cities

  • Paradise

    "No other word for it: a charming book."ââ,¬â€ťPeter S. Prescott, Newsweek

    Simon, a middle-aged architect separated from his wife, is given the chance to live out a stereotypical male fantasy: freed from the travails of married life, he ends u...

  • Forty Stories

    The author's talent for creating the unexpected, and for rewriting the rules of the English language, has made him one of the most innovative and respected writers of the 20th century. This is another dazzling display of his unrivaled ability to surp...

  • King

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    In The King, a retelling of Le Morte D''Arthur, Donald Barthelme moves the chivalrous Knights of the Round Table to the cruelty of the Second World War. Dunkirk has fallen, Europe is at the breaking point, Ezra Pound and Lord Haw-Haw are poisonin...

  • The Teachings of Don B.

    "Barthelme . . . happens to be one of a handful of American authors, there to make us look bad, who know instinctively how to stash the merchandise, bamboozle the inspectors, and smuggle their nocturnal contraband right on past the checkpoints of day...

  • Snow White

    Fairytale Retellings: Snow White

    “Eccentric, dazzling…the literary conversation piece of the year.” â€"San Francisco ChronicleAn American short story writer and novelist acclaimed for his playful, postmodern style of short fiction, Barthelme’s first novel, Snow White, is a c...

  • Slightly Irregular Fire Engine or The Hithering Dithering Djinn

  • Flying to America

    Donald Barthelme was one of the most influential and inventive writers of the twentieth century. Through his unique, richly textured, and brilliantly realized novels, stories, parodies, satires, fables, and essays, Barthelme redefined a generation of...

  • Not-Knowing

    The wildly varied essays in Not-Knowing combine to form a posthumous manifesto of one of America’s masters of literary experiment. Here are Barthelme’s thoughts on writing (his own and others); his observations on art, architecture, film, and cit...

  • Donald Barthelme: Collected Stories

    The definitive collection of a twentieth-century master of the short story, whose unforgettable inventions revolutionized the formThe short stories of Donald Barthelme, revered by the likes of Thomas Pynchon and George Saunders, are gems of invention...



  • Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby

  • Amateurs

    • / General Fiction
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    Dec.1977 Kangaroo Book(Pocket Books) mass market PB. Donald Barthelme (The Dead Father, Guilty Pleasures) aims his satiric wit and "cool mockery....on the pretensions and foibles of the human lot." The blurb (quoting The Los Angeles Times) compares t...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Donald Barthelme has published 21 books.

Donald Barthelme does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Donald Barthelme, Unspeakable Practices, was published in January 1968.

No. Donald Barthelme does not write books in series.
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