Amateurs — Donald Barthelme

Dec.1977 Kangaroo Book(Pocket Books) mass market PB. Donald Barthelme (The Dead Father, Guilty Pleasures) aims his satiric wit and "cool mockery....on the pretensions and foibles of the human lot." The blurb (quoting The Los Angeles Times) compares the author to Pynchon, Barth, Vonnegut and Heller!