| Description |
1 online resource (294 pages) |
|
text file rda |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Dedication; 1: Junk Town; 2: Ex; 3: Painted; 4: Destin; 5: The Virgin Mary; 6: Velodrome; 7: Dilettante's Guide; 8: Cowardice; 9: NY, NY; 10: Crosley; 11: iPhone; 12: Cops; 13: Modern World; 14: Lullaby; 15: The Offer; 16: House Wear; 17: Performance Art; 18: Baptism; 19: Fireworks; 20: Airstream; 21: Night Moves; 22: Jean Darling; 23: The Letter; 24: Present Company; 25: Detectives; 26: Oscar Peterson; 27: A Bad Night; 28: HOA; 29: Lockup; 30: Car Wash; 31: Flight; 32: Tattoos; 33: Poof; 34: Statuary; 35: Moonlight; About the Author |
|
Praise for "There Must Be Some Mistake"Also by Frederick Barthelme; Newsletters |
| Summary |
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 low-key epiphany." (The New Yorker) Wallace Webster lives alone in Kemah, Texas at Forgetful Bay, a condo development where residents are passing away at an alarming rate. As he monitors events in the neighborhood, Wallace keeps in touch with his ex-wife, his grown daughter, a former coworker for whom he has much averted eyes, and a somewhat exotic resident with whom he commences an off-beat affair. He sifts through the curious accidents that plague his neighbors, all the while reflecting on his past and shortening future. Required to reflect upon his own mortality, he wonders if "settling for" something less than he aspired to is a kind of cowardice, or just good sense. Beneath the arresting repartee and the ever-present and often satisfying banality of our modern lives--from Google searches to real life mysteries on TV--lies Frederick Barthelme's affection for and curiosity about our human condition. THERE MUST BE SOME MISTAKE is warm and wry, beautifully written, and completely irresistible. |
|
After being forced into retirement, Wallace Webster, discovers through his own meditations on life and mortality, that things just may not be all that bad. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
Divorced people -- Fiction.
|
|
Neighbors -- Fiction.
|
|
Neighbors. |
|
Texas -- Fiction.
|
|
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
|
|
Kemah (Tex.) -- Fiction.
|
|
Texas -- Kemah. |
| Genre |
Electronic books. |
|
Fiction.
|
| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Barthelme, Frederick, 1943- There must be some mistake New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2014 9780316231244 (NjBwBT)bl2014039596 (OCoLC)870199608 |
| ISBN |
9780316365369 : $75.00 |
|
031636536X : $75.00 |
|
More Resources