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Frederick Barthelme
Frederick Barthelme is a minimalist writer whose stories are anything but minimal. Labeled as "Dirty" or "Kmart" Realism, his work illustrates the immense feeling contained within the minute and seemingly…
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A generous and intimate new novel–the first in six years–from American literature’s premier chronicler of middle-class angst in the new South.
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Peter Wexler is 40 and obsessed with what’s wrong in the world, including his marriage. Deciding that a change of scenery might help, Peter leaves his wife and their son…
Set during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, this latest work by the author of the New York Times Notable Book Elroy Nights uncovers a landscape of…
A fiftyish graphic designer forced into retirement discovers, via a parade of unlikely events, that it may still be a lovely day in the neighborhood, by the master of the…
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Frederick Barthelme’s most powerful novel to date, Two Against One is the portrait of a marriage gone awry. On Edward’s fortieth birthday, his estranged wife Elise appears unannounced at his…
With old and new stories side-by-side, this collection of fiction has as its subjects: small romances, private fears, suburban estrangement, office angst, cultural isolation, apparently insignificant humiliations, and the growing…
This novel, a chronicle of the divorces and recouplings of the author’s own generation, is a terse, surrealistic, and moving portrait of life in America . Martin, in the middle…
Frederick Barthelme,Steven Barthelme
This is a true story of two men, and the world of floating Gulf Coast casinos. Two brothers inherit money only to gamble it away along with their futures.
