{"product_id":"paradise-9781564784032","title":"Paradise","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"No other word for it: a charming book.\" Peter S. Prescott, Newsweek\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 1986 satire of the midlife crisis follows newly single Simon, who moves into his own apartment and shockingly becomes the sex toy of a harem of lingerie models living down the hall. But Simon is such a worrier that instead of enjoying the ultimate male fantasy, he fears he is only being set up for a fall (no wonder his wife ditched him). Copyright 2006 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParadise is agile, witty and lightened by Barthelme's canny disassociations, and it is one of the blackest things he has written. --Richard Eder\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough Donald Barthelme has written 12 previous books of fiction containing some of the most innovative influential stories of our day reading Paradise is a shock and a revelation. --Elizabeth Jolley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere's nothing in art as dazzling and bewildering as a fully achieved style at its apex . . . Though superficially Paradise seems to be a modest little caprice, Barthelme strikes every note . . . and the cascade of consonances he pours out really does seem to offer too much beauty for a conventional 1987 sensibility to see the sense behind it. --Michael Feingold\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarthelme, Donald:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Donald Barthelme was one of the most influential American novelists of the 1970s and 1980s, bringing a unique postmodern voice to his novels, short stories and essays. He died in 1989.","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764011204882,"sku":"9781564784032","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6e64d8ad-d243-4ab7-8462-ddbbb38a627e.jpg?v=1764749902","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/paradise-9781564784032","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}