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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.
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Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby, Donald Barthelme
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- Released
- 2011
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- Title
- Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Donald Barthelme
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Released
- 2011
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 96
- ISBN10
- 0141195770
- ISBN13
- 9780141195773
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, World Literature
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- 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.


