Forty Stories

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.

• | By (Author): Dave Eggers
• | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
• | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• | Publication Date: Apr 07, 2005
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Language: Not available
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0141180943
• | ISBN-13: 9780141180946