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Paradise by Donald Barthelme

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Name: Donald Barthelme
Variant Name: Donald Barthelme, Jr.
Birth Date: April 7, 1931
Death Date: July 23, 1989
Place of Birth: Philadelphia
Nationality: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of Donald Barthelme
8548 words, approx. 28.5 pages
Two years after Donald Barthelme's death, his friend Robert Coover observed that his name had achieved a new currency as an adjective: the term "Barthelmesque," Coover wrote, refers not only to a style- "precise, urbane, ironic, rivetingly succinct, and...
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Biography of Donald Barthelme
1569 words, approx. 5.2 pages
Donald Barthelme has achieved his present eminence as one of the leading popular innovators in American fiction through the pages of the New Yorker magazine, where he began publishing in 1963. But, although he is best known for his stiff-upper-lip senten...


News and Journals
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TriQuarterly
On Donald Barthelme.
12/22/1996: 5,545 words, approx. 19 pages
Donald Barthelme's death seems to have brought with it the demise of the entire postmodern aesthetic with which he was associated. His experimentation on literary forms and his dismantling of the traditional short story has come to be regarded as passe. However, through his...
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Publishers Weekly
Frederick Barthelme: the writer as high roller.
10/06/1997: 2,059 words, approx. 7 pages
Frederick Barthelme's seventh novel, 'Bob the Gambler,' tells the story of an habitual gambler and the toll gambling takes on his family. It may be a story that Barthelme can personally relate to since he makes weekly visits to a casino and often stays...
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The New York Observer
Squirrel’s Paradise
1/1/2008: 598 words, approx. 2 pages
Anyone who has passed by the monstrously large residential complexes known as Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village on First Avenue between 14th and 23rd streets knows they account for a prison-block-like swath of red brick. Lesser known is the fact that the magical forest...
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AP-Travel Online
Mount Rainier: Everyone Visits Paradise
6/13/2006: 1,191 words, approx. 4 pages
It's called Paradise for a reason. Vibrant wildflower meadows and spectacular views of Mount Rainier have long made Paradise the most popular destination at this revered national park. Reached at 5,400 feet by following a...
 


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Paradise by Donald Barthelme

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