# Forty Stories

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- Book: [Forty Stories](https://www.bookquiver.com/donald-barthelme/forty-stories) ([Forty Stories.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/donald-barthelme/forty-stories.md))
- Authors: [Donald Barthelme](https://www.bookquiver.com/donald-barthelme)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4138-932-5
- Published: 2012-04-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

This collection of pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces is a companion to Sixty Stories, Barthelme's earlier retrospective volume. Barthelme spotlights the idiosyncratic, haughty, sometimes downright ludicrous behavior of human beings, but it is style rather than content which takes precedence.