Paradise | |
Author: | Donald Barthelme |
Pages: | 208 pages |
Paradise is a 1986 novel by American writer Donald Barthelme. The novel concerns an architect, Simon, and his creation of an apparent paradise for himself.[1] [2]
The novel takes place in New York City.[3]
The New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani compared the novel unfavorably to Barthelme's earlier novels and short stories, writing that it "[...] has little of the vitality or inventiveness of Mr. Barthelme's earlier work and none of its provocative intelligence."[3] Elizabeth Jolley, also writing in The New York Times, praised the novel's humor and referred to it as a "shock and a revelation".[4]