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City Life

by Donald Barthelme · 1970

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Barthelme's third collection of short stories, including:

Views of my father weeping.—Paraguay.—The falling dog.—At the Tolstoy Museum.—The policemen's ball.—The glass mountain.—The explanation.—Kierkegaard unfair to Schlegel.—The phantom of the opera's friend.—Sentence.—Bone bubbles.—On angels.—Brain damage.—City life.

Genre
literary fictionhumor
Setting
1970sUSA
Audience
adult
Length
short · 173 pages
Form
short stories

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