SlIghtly irregular fire engine, or, The Hithering Thithering Djinn
Author : David Barthelme
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,68 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Children's literature
ISBN :
Author : David Barthelme
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,68 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Children's literature
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Author : Donald Barthelme
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,64 MB
Release : 2006-11-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781585678280
Relates Matilda's adventures in the Chinese house that grew in her back yard. Collage illustrations made from nineteenth-century engravings.
Author : Jane Flory
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 16,7 MB
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0698402847
Discover a treasure trove of beautifully illustrated books with our new series, G+D Vintage! Featuring books from our Wonder Books line originally published in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, there’s something for every reader in these timeless stories accompanied by classic illustrations. The little red fire engine wants a big job—but he’s quite little! After putting out small sparks at a big fire and stopping flames in a wastebasket, he realizes that he’s perfectly suited to solve little problems of all kinds.
Author : Donald Barthelme
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 19,25 MB
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466857307
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 the imaginative use of language that influenced a generation of fiction writers, Donald Barthelme offered a glimpse into his fictional universe. As Donald Antrim writes in his introduction, "Reading The Dead Father, one has the sense that its author enjoys an almost complete artistic freedom . . . a permission to reshape, misrepresent, or even ignore the world as we find it . . . Laughing along with its author, we escape anxiety and feel alive."
Author : Lois Lenski
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 15,98 MB
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0375822631
Mr. Small does it all (and now he does it in board books)! In this adventure, Fireman Small rushes to battle a fire in town. When the alarm bell rings, Fireman Small suits up and roars down the road in his shiny red fire engine. When he helps extinguish the fire and rescues a young girl, Fireman Small becomes a hero in Tinytown.
Author : Tracy Daugherty
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 39,76 MB
Release : 2009-02-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0312378688
Examines in detail the life and work of the influential American writer, his creation of his most well known stories, and his relationships with such prominent contemporaries as Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut, and Tom Wolfe.
Author : Jerome Klinkowitz
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 16,63 MB
Release : 1991-05-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822381699
Donald Barthelme (1931–1989) is regarded as one of the most imitated and influential American fiction writers since the early 1960s. In Donald Barthelme: An Exhibition, Jerome Klinkowitz presents both an appreciation and a comprehensive examination of the life work of this pathbreaking contemporary writer. A blend of close reading, biography, and theory, this retrospective—informed by Klinkowitz’s expert command of postmodern American fiction—contributes significantly to a new understanding of Barthelme’s work. Klinkowitz argues that the central piece in the Barthelme canon, and the key to his artistic method, is his widely acknowledged masterpiece, The Dead Father. In turning to this pivotal work, as well as to Barthelme’s short stories and other novels, Klinkowitz explores the way in which Barthelme reinvented the tools of narration, characterization, and thematics at a time when fictive techniques were largely believed to be exhausted. Klinkowitz, who was one of the first scholars to study Barthelme’s work and became its definitive bibliographer, situates Barthelme’s life and work within a broad spectrum of influences and affinities. A consideration of developments in painting and sculpture, for example, as well as those of contemporaneous fiction, contribute to Klinkowitz’s analysis. This astute reading will provide great insight for readers, writers, and critics of contemporary American fiction seeking explanations and justifications of Barthelme’s critical importance in the literature of our times.
Author : Helen Moore Barthelme
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,71 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1603446702
Chronicling a literary life that ended not so long ago, "Donald Barthelme: ""The"" Genesis of a Cool Sound" gives the reader a glimpse at the years when Barthelme began to find his literary voice. A revealing look at Donald Barthelme's influences and development, this account begins with a detailed biographical sketch of his life and spans his growth into a true avant-garde literary figure. Donald Barthleme was born in Philadelphia but raised in Houston, the son of a forward-thinking architect father and a literary mother. Educated at the University of Houston, he became a fine arts critic for the "Houston"" Post;" then, following duty in the Korean conflict, he returned to the "Post" for a short time before becoming editor for "Forum" literary magazine. After that, he was also director of the Contemporary Arts Museum while writing and publishing his first stories. In the 1960s he moved to New York, where he became editor of "Location" and was able to practice the art of short fiction in such vehicles as the "New Yorker" and "Harper's Bazaar." In a witty, playful, ironic, and bizarrely imaginative style, he wrote more than one hundred short stories and several novels over the years. In this literary memoir, Donald Barthelme's former wife, Helen Moore Barthelme, offers insights into his career as well as his private life, focusing especially on the decade they were married, from the mid-fifties to the mid-sixties, a period when he was developing the forms and genres that made him famous. During that time Barthelme was finding his voice as a writer and his short stories were beginning to receive notice. In her memoir, Helen Moore Barthelme writes about Donald's early years and her life with him in Houston and New York. In open, straightforward language she tells about their love for each other and about the events that finally divided them. She also describes, from the point of view of the person closest to Donald during that time, the making of one of the most original and imaginative American writers of the twentieth century. Scholars of avant-garde American literature will gain insider perspective to one man's life and the years which, for all their myriad joys and downturns, produced some of the best-remembered works in the literary canon.
Author : Igloo Books
Publisher :
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 39,96 MB
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Toy and movable books
ISBN : 9781848528055
Author : Simon Goodenough
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 46,57 MB
Release : 1978
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