Some of Us Had Been Threatening our Friend Colby
Editorial PENGUIN BOOKS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher PENGUIN BOOKS
- ISBN13 9780141195773
- ISBN10 0141195770
- Type BOOK
- Pages 75
- Collection Mini-Modern Classics #
- Published 2011
- Language English
- Bookbinding Paperback
Subjects
English LiteratureSome of Us Had Been Threatening our Friend Colby
Editorial PENGUIN BOOKS
Mainland Spain
Book details
'I said that although hanging Colby was almost certainly against the law, we had a perfect moral right to do so because he was our friend, belonged to us in various important senses, and he had after all gone too far.' Donald Barthelme is a puckish player with language, a writer of short but endlessly rewarding comic gems, a thinker and an experimenter. In these nine short stories, whether writing about a hairy, donkeyish king or a touching, private gesture of city-sized proportions, his is a surreal, deadpan genius. This book includes Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby, The Glass Mountain, I Bought a Little City, The Palace at Four A.M., Chablis, The School, Margins, Game and The Balloon.