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title: "Forty Stories"
author: "Donald Barthelme"
genre: "Fiction, Postmodern Short Fiction"
category: "Fiction"
themes: "Language Instability and Play;Inventiveness and Wit;The Unexpected in Narrative;Metafiction"
asin: "0142437816"
bnid: "1001835298"
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# Forty Stories

## Context
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