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Paradise (Barthelme novel)

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Paradise
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Author Donald Barthelme
Pages208 pages

Paradise is a 1986 novel by American writer Donald Barthelme. The novel concerns an architect, Simon, and his creation of an apparent paradise for himself. [1] [2]

The novel takes place in New York City. [3]

Reception

The New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani compared the novel unfavorably to Barthelme's earlier novels and short stories, writing that it "[...] has little of the vitality or inventiveness of Mr. Barthelme's earlier work and none of its provocative intelligence." [3] Elizabeth Jolley, also writing in The New York Times, praised the novel's humor and referred to it as a "shock and a revelation". [4]

References

  1. ↑ Kušnír, Jaroslav (2012). American Fiction: Modernism-Postmodernism, Popular Culture, and Metafiction. ibidem. ISBN   9783838255149 . Retrieved May 8, 2020.
  2. ↑ Burt, Daniel S., ed. (2004). The Chronology of American Literature: America's Literary Achievements from the Colonial Era to Modern Times. Houghton Mifflin. p. 662. ISBN   9780618168217 . Retrieved May 8, 2020.
  3. 1 2 Kakutani, Michiko (October 22, 1986). "BOOKS OF THE TIMES: Paradise". The New York Times. Retrieved May 8, 2020.
  4. ↑ Jolley, Elizabeth (October 26, 1986). "IS SIMON IN HOG HEAVEN?". New York Times . Retrieved May 8, 2020.
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