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- “Game” by Donald Barthelme Summary – Short Story Guide:
“Game” is a short story by Donald Barthelme that can be found in his collection Sixty Stories It’s about two soldiers assigned to monitor a console in an underground bunker, and how they’re affected when they fail to get relieved from the job
- Game by Donald Barthelme (Summary) - Writing Atlas
Game By Donald Barthelme, first published in The New Yorker Two men have been locked underground somewhere in Utah, Montana, or Idaho with instructions to wait for a monitor's signal then each turn a key in a lock simultaneously to fire a "bird" at an unknown target city
- GAME: By Donald Barthelme
By Donald Barthelme Shotwell keeps the jacks and the rubber ball in his attaché case and will not allow me to play with them
- Game - The New Yorker
Shotwell reads a book for his marketing course, plays jacks and bounces the ball against the floor, but will not share them with the writer, who writes descriptions of natural forms on the wall
- A Great Short Story Has a Pulse: Donald Barthelme’s ‘Game’
A great short story is tightly wound—no wasted words or breaths—but a great short story has new contours when we return to it I first read “Game” in the basement of a university library, among the dark stacks of nearly discarded issues of Popular Mechanics
- ‘Game’ by Donald Barthelme - A Personal Anthology
‘Game’ by Donald Barthelme A great short story is tightly wound, not one wasted moment, and ‘Game’ is a breathless, claustrophobic, paranoid tale which takes place in a single room in an underground bunker
- Stories to Go: Game by Donald Barthelme
People say Donald Barthelme did more than just about anyone to change the face of the American short story during the 1960's and '70's, despite of or perhaps because of appearing regularly in the generally conservative New Yorker magazine
- Game by Donald Barthelme - LibraryThing
Welcome to Donald Barthelme's world of postmodern short fiction I have a special fondness for Game since this five page snapper served as my introduction to Mr Barthelme’s highly distinctive voice and style
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