Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme
by Tracy Daugherty
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In the 1960s Donald Barthelme came to prominence as the leader of the Postmodern movement. He was a fixture at the New Yorker, publishing more than 100 short stories, including such masterpieces as "Me and Miss Mandible," the tale of a thirty-five-year-old sent to elementary school by clerical error, and "A Shower of Gold,"in which a sculptor agrees to appear on the existentialist game show Who Am I? He had a dynamic relationship with his father that influenced much of his fiction. He worked show more as an editor, a designer, a curator, a news reporter, and a teacher. He was at the forefront of literary Greenwich Village which saw him develop lasting friendships with Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Wolfe, Grace Paley, and Norman Mailer. Married four times, he had a volatile private life. He died of cancer in 1989. The recipient of many prestigious literary awards, he is best remembered for the classic novels "Snow White," "The Dead Father," and many short stories, all of which remain in print today. This is the first biography of Donald Barthelme, and it is nothing short of a masterpiece. show lessTags
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This is a great read for anyone who loves the writing of Donald Barthelme and/or would like to know about his life. It really covers everything and I so wish I had known all of this about him when he was alive, and I slightly knew him!
This was not a very good book I got it on Kindle but it was just so uninteresting. I never actually finished it because it was so boring. To know more about the life of Donald Bartholomew but there's going to have to be a different book at a different time for that.
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Tracy Daugherty is the author of four novels, two of which, What Falls Away and Axeman's Jazz, won the Oregon Book Award. He's also the author of a volume of personal essays and two previous story collections, one of which, It Takes a Worried Man, won the Oregon Book Award
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Biography & Memoir, Fiction and Literature
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- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
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- PS3552 .A76 .Z66 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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