Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts

This is a handy little paperback edition. I also have a hardback first edition listed here.
“We defended the city as best we could. The arrows of the Comanches came in clouds. The war clubs of the Comanches clattered on the soft, yellow pavements. There were earthworks along the Boulevard Mark Clark and the hedges had been laced with sparkling wire…
Thus begins “The Indian Uprising,” the first of fifteen mysterious, idiosyncratic, explosive stories in Donald Barthelme’s new collection. In
“The Indian Uprising” a modern city is attacked, and conquered, by Comanches. In “Edward and Pia” a pair of nervous, self-conscious lovers wander about Sweden and Denmark. In “The President” a tiny Chief Executive (only forty-eight inches high at the shoulder) mesmerizes the country with his “magic charisma.” In “The Dolt” a would-be author constructs a baroque tale missing one important ingredient, a middle.
Mr. Barthelme’s stories, extremely short yet resonant beyond their length, have been called the most radical and original being written in America to-day. Twelve of the stories in Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts first appeared in The New Yorker. His remarkable short novel, Snow White, was published in 1967, and an earlier collection of stories, Come Back, Dr. Caligari, in 1964.