Background
Barthelme, Frederick Rick was born on October 10, 1943 in Houston, Texas, United States.
(In a sequel to The Brothers, Del Tribute, a junior colleg...)
In a sequel to The Brothers, Del Tribute, a junior college professor, and his girlfriend pry themselves from their television and computer screens and take to the road, achieving an epiphany in the Arizona desert. 10,000 first printing.
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( Frederick Barthelme's wry and wonderful stories have gi...)
Frederick Barthelme's wry and wonderful stories have given us a stunning, cautionary, funny, sometimes bleak, and often transcendent portrait of contemporary life in the sprawl of suburban America. Barthelme made his remarkable debut with these tender and affectionate stories, most of which were originally published in The New Yorker. Moon Deluxe received the high praise of such writers as John Barth, Raymond Carver, Ann Beattie, and Margaret Atwood, and earned Barthelme a permanent place in the pantheon of contemporary American writers. In these stories he delicately probes the peculiar corners of contemporary culture, capturing the fast and often touching ways we relate to each other and to the time in which we live.
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(Elroy Nights is a reasonably successful artist and profes...)
Elroy Nights is a reasonably successful artist and professor, fifty-something, who is caught between the midlife crisis of his forties and the "eagerly anticipated sublime decay" of his sixties. Elroy and his wife, Clare, elect to try living separately, a choice characteristic of their relationship-fond, thoughtful, generous to a fault, and more than a little cracked. So Elroy leases a high-rise beach condo, begins hanging out with his twenty-something students, and experiences a splendid reenchantment with the world. With his trademark precision and pitch-perfect dialogue, Barthelme elegantly lays open this interweaving of twenty-year olds with their fifty-something fellow traveler. The result is a lovely, lilting romance, and a spare yet generous masterpiece from a writer at the top of his form.
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(A New York Times Notable Book In this darkly funny story,...)
A New York Times Notable Book In this darkly funny story, Ray and Jewel Kaiser try (and push) their luck at the Paradise casino. Peopled with dazed denizens, body-pierced children, a lusty grocery-store manager, and hourly employees in full revolt, this is a novel about wising up sooner rather than later--"a wise and funny tale" (New York Times Book Review) that is "masterfully observed" (John Barth).
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( Double Down is a true story, a terrifying roller-coaste...)
Double Down is a true story, a terrifying roller-coaster ride deep into the heart of two men, and into the world of floating Gulf Coast casinos. When both of their parents died within a short time of each other, the writers Frederick and Steven Barthelme, both professors of English in Mississippi, inherited a goodly sum of money. What followed was a binge during which they gambled away their entire fortune-and more. And then, in a cruel twist of fate, they were charged with cheating at the tables. Told with a mixture of sadness and wry humor, and with a compelling look at the physical aura of gambling-the feel of the cards, the smell of the crowd, the sounds of the tables-Double Down is a reflection on the lure of challenging the odds, the attraction of stepping into the void. A cautionary tale (the brothers were eventually exonerated), it is a book that, once read, will never be forgotten.
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Barthelme, Frederick Rick was born on October 10, 1943 in Houston, Texas, United States.
Student, Tulane University, 1961—1962. Student, University Houston, 1962—1965. Student, University Houston, 1966—1967.
Student, Museum Fine Arts, Houston, 1965—1966. Master of Arts, Johns Hopkins University, 1977.
Professor University Southern Mississippi, since 1977, director Center for Writers, since 1978, editor Mississippi Review.
(In a sequel to The Brothers, Del Tribute, a junior colleg...)
( Frederick Barthelme's wry and wonderful stories have gi...)
(Elroy Nights is a reasonably successful artist and profes...)
(Frederick Barthelme's first book, a 1970 collection of sh...)
( Double Down is a true story, a terrifying roller-coaste...)
(A New York Times Notable Book In this darkly funny story,...)
(This is a collection of 15 short stories which are set in...)