Authors: Donald Barthelme
A TOUCHSTONE BOOK
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are
products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to
actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 1965, 1967 by Donald Barthelme; copyright renewed
All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any
form.
Cover design & photograph by Timothy Hsu
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.
ISBN-13: 978-0-684-82479-6
ISBN-10: 0-684-82479-5
ISBN-13: 978-1439-14440-4 (eBook)
This book first appeared, in slightly different form, in
The New Yorker.
Certain portions also appeared, in slightly different form, in
Harper’s Bazaar
and
Paris Review.