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One of the best collections of short stories in American literature. A kaleidoscope of lives and characters, unforgettable panoramas of cities and towns, always relevant philosophical dilemmas and paradoxical aphorisms. Everyone will find something of their own on these pages of the outstanding master novelist: from absurdity and black humour to piercing lyricism and eternal values. Donald Barthelme, a classic of postmodernism, offers his own version of the world history of the last two centuries, which has everything and more: Indians, Kierkegaard, a drowning president, angels, Edward Lear, capitalism and jazz.