DONALD BARTHELME: The Genesis of a Cool Sound
Helen Moore Barthelme, . . Texas A&M Univ., $29.95 (246pp) ISBN 978-1-58544-119-8
Barthelme, a senior lecturer of English at Texas A&M University, was married to Donald Barthelme for a decade in the 1950s and '60s; here she ably recounts Donald's emergence as an important experimental American author who produced over 100 works of short fiction and several novels. This engaging, unpretentious recollection of "Don," who died in 1989 of cancer at age 58, covers events from his childhood in Houston as the son of a famous architect father, to his development into an "exciting," if often "puzzling," thinker and writer. The reader learns of Donald's various employments, from journalism (the
Reviewed on: 05/28/2001
Genre: Nonfiction
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