“Game” by Donald Barthelme Summary – Short Story Guide: “Game” is a short story by Donald Barthelme that can be found in his collection Sixty Stories It’s about two soldiers assigned to monitor a console in an underground bunker, and how they’re affected when they fail to get relieved from the job
Game by Donald Barthelme (Summary) - Writing Atlas Game By Donald Barthelme, first published in The New Yorker Two men have been locked underground somewhere in Utah, Montana, or Idaho with instructions to wait for a monitor's signal then each turn a key in a lock simultaneously to fire a "bird" at an unknown target city
Game - The New Yorker “Game” by Donald Barthelme was published in the print edition of the July 31, 1965, issue of The New Yorker
GAME: By Donald Barthelme - latexnet. org By Donald Barthelme Shotwell keeps the jacks and the rubber ball in his attaché case and will not allow me to play with them
Game by Donald Barthelme - LibraryThing Welcome to Donald Barthelme's world of postmodern short fiction I have a special fondness for Game since this five page snapper served as my introduction to Mr Barthelme’s highly distinctive voice and style
A Great Short Story Has a Pulse: Donald Barthelme’s ‘Game’ A great short story is tightly wound—no wasted words or breaths—but a great short story has new contours when we return to it I first read “Game” in the basement of a university library, among the dark stacks of nearly discarded issues of Popular Mechanics
‘Game’ by Donald Barthelme – Short Story Magic Tricks It’s difficult to know just what to make of a story like this I can only imagine the stir it caused in literary circles when it hit the pages of The New Yorker in 1965
‘Game’ by Donald Barthelme - A Personal Anthology ‘Game’ by Donald Barthelme A great short story is tightly wound, not one wasted moment, and ‘Game’ is a breathless, claustrophobic, paranoid tale which takes place in a single room in an underground bunker