# Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby

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- Authors: [Donald Barthelme](https://www.bookquiver.com/donald-barthelme)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2011-02-15

## Description

'I said that although hanging Colby was almost certainly against the law, we had a perfect moral right to do so because he was our friend , belonged to us in various important senses, and he had after all gone too far.' Donald Barthelme is a puckish player with language, a writer of short but endlessly rewarding comic gems, a thinker and an experimenter. In these nine short stories, whether writing about a hairy, donkeyish king or a touching, private gesture of city-sized proportions, his is a surreal, deadpan genius. This book includes Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby, The Glass Mountain, I Bought a Little City, The Palace at Four A. M., Chablis, The School, Margins, Game and The Balloon .

## Editions

### Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4197-116-2
- Published: 2011-02-15
- Language: en_GB