{"product_id":"city-life","title":"City Life","description":"180 pp. Barthelmes latest collection of fiction is the most successfull example of a new strand of American writing that draws on surrealism, Kafka and Borges. Barthelme uses exact and simple language to describe dreamlike rearrangements of private, literary and public situations, in a play of elegant anachronisms and ambiguities. City Life seems notable less formalistic than Barthelme's previous works and is made even more accessible by his use of illustrations -collages in a witty Pop heroic style. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: \"Donald Barthelme (April 7, 1931 – July 23, 1989) was an American author known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction. Barthelme also worked as a newspaper reporter for the Houston Post, managing editor of Location magazine, director of the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston (1961–1962), co-founder of Fiction (with Mark Mirsky and the assistance of Max and Marianne Frisch), and a professor at various universities. He also was one of the original founders of The University of Houston Creative Writing Program.\"","brand":"Bantam Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":20536833900614,"sku":"2277343","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/products\/2277343.jpg?v=1571426233","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/city-life","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}