{"product_id":"flying-to-america-45-more-stories-9781619029996","title":"Flying to America: 45 More Stories","description":"Donald Barthelme was one of the most influential and inventive writers of the 20th century. In this volume of unpublished and previously uncollected stories, he transforms the absurd and strange into the real in his usual epiphanic, engaging, and richly textured style. The stories delve further into themes that often interested Barthelme: the perils of the unfulfilled existence; the relationships between politics, art, sex, and life; and the importance of continuing to ask questions even though we are unable to learn the answers. This collection will delight both old fans and new readers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonald Barthelme\u003c\/b\u003e is a winner of the National Book Award and is the author of over seventeen books, including \u003ci\u003eFlying to America\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCity Life\u003c\/i\u003e (one of \u003ci\u003eTime Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Books of the Year), and \u003ci\u003eSixty Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN\/Faulkner Award, and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize. He was a founder of the renowned University of Houston Creative Writing Program, where he taught for many years. He died in 1989. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eKim Herzinger\u003c\/b\u003e is a critic who writes on minimalism and other contemporary literary phenomena, a Pushcart Prize-winning writer of fiction, and the editor of two other Donald Barthelme collections, \u003ci\u003eNot-Knowing\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Teachings of Don B.\u003c\/i\u003e He taught at the University of Southern Mississippi and now owns and operates Left Bank Books in New York City.\"\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50505697755410,"sku":"9781619029996","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5cc829ce-1296-4e64-98f5-027437ad7ffb.jpg?v=1730842475","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/flying-to-america-45-more-stories-9781619029996","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}