1. The Barthelmes recount in vivid detail and with good psychological insight the trauma of coping with that dual loss.

2. Donald Barthelme is one of the most influential innovators.

3. Donald Barthelme is an important post modernistic writer.

4. Donald Barthelme, the lhther of the new generation of postmodernism in the. U.S.

5. Donald Barthelme is one of the most strikingly innovative and arguable postmodern writers.

6. Donald Barthelme is one of the most famous American postmodern writers.

7. Together with Pynchon, Barthelme and Hawkes, Gaddis has earned his reputation as one of the precursors and masters of postmodern American fiction.

8. Postmodernist novel Snow White is Donald Barthelme s representative work.