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Frederick Barthelme's stories portray with humor, detachment, precision, and deep affection that everyday world of contemporary America. Rarely has a writer, so caught the mood and tempo of our daily lives, with their shopping malls, small businesses, suburban neighbors, and busy quotidian affairs. Now Moon Deluxe brings together seventeen of these wonderful pieces, ranging in subject from the jockeying between the sexes to small town life to the vagaries of the individual-all bathed in a dry lyricism that captures the humor and dignity of our ordinary lives. Barthelme's characters inhabit a…
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3 editions- Other · English · 1995Grove Press · 240 pages · 9780802134370
- Other · English · 1984Penguin Books · 240 pages · 9780140071306
- Other · English · 1983Simon and Schuster · 240 pages · 9780671472689
FictionSocial life and customsNew York Times reviewedFiction, short stories (single author)