![]() ![]() ![]() This short story was first published in his 1976 anthology, Amateurs. Many of his stories are deliberately absurdist, with hilarious but sometimes unnerving results. The American writer Donald Barthelme (1931-89) is sometimes labelled as a ‘postmodernist’ writer (a label he was not entirely comfortable with, but reluctantly accepted) and, occasionally, ‘metafiction’ (a label he was less happy with). ![]() Faith narrates the story of the three friends’ visit to see their friend Selena, who is dying, and its aftermath, which sees the three central characters reminiscing about their lives and their friendship together.ĭonald Barthelme, ‘ Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby’. Paley (1922-2007) offers us a tale of three female friends, Ann, Susan, and Faith. ![]()
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