Paradise
#3030 of 8,085 books · #1449 in Fiction
Shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1987).
Simon, a fifty-three-year-old Philadelphia architect, is given a year to do as he wishes. He lives in a bare apartment, thinking back on his life and work. A complex relationship develops when he becomes involved with three younger women.
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- ISBN-13
- 9780140103588
- Genre
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for FictionShortlistedMajor(1987)
Other awarded books from Donald Barthelme
- Sixty Stories (2005)0 wins · 12 score
- Guilty Pleasures (1974)0 wins · 4 score
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