Flying to America: 45 More Stories

[Emeryville, CA]: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007. Bound Galley/Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. Very Near Fine. 331 pp. 23cm. Softcover. Photo illustrated wraps. Book Condition: Very near fine. A rarity, this uncorrected proof. We've only ever seen this one. By Donald Barthelme ; edited and with a preface by Kim Herzinger. Barthelme (1931-1989) was one of the great 20th-century American absurdists. The 45 stories in this collection include stories Barthelme himself excluded from his two major collections and little that went previously unpublished. Winner of the National Book Award, Donald Barthelme published sixteen books, including City Life, one of Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year, and Sixty Stories, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the Los Angeles Times 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.