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Hardcover:
9780316231244 | Little Brown & Co, October 7, 2014, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: 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.
Hardcover:
9780385527293 | Doubleday, April 7, 2009, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina on Mississippi's Gulf Coast, mostly retired architect Vaughn Williams, who is beset by the routine but no less troubling difficulties of late midlife, is doing what he can to remain, as he says, “viable.
Hardcover:
9781582431284 | Counterpoint, October 1, 2003, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A successful artist and professor caught in a midlife crisis, Elroy Nights--with his wife's agreement--elects to live separately from her, embarking on a journey of discovery with his young students, until a tragedy forces him to deal with a world suddenly gone wrong.
Paperback:
9781582433196 | Reprint edition (Counterpoint, August 18, 2004), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A reasonably successful, fiftysomething artist and professor caught between a midlife crisis and the decay of his sixties, Elroy Nights--with his wife's agreement--elects to live separately from his wife and embarks on a journey of discovery with his young students, until an unforeseen tragedy forces him to deal with a world suddenly gone wrong.
Paperback:
9781582431574 | Counterpoint, July 1, 2001, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A collection of short fiction, written over the course of two decades, appears in a definitive anthology that includes both old favorites and new original works that eloquently capture the interactions among his characters.
Paperback:
9781582431314 | Reprint edition (Counterpoint, June 22, 2001), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Seething with outrage at life's injustice, successful but unhappy executive Peter Wexler suddenly takes to behaving oddly, leaves his wife and son, and eventually opens up a completely unorthodox business at a shopping center.
Hardcover:
9780395954294 | Houghton Mifflin, November 22, 1999, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The brothers of deceased author Donald Barthelme describe their experience with organized gambling in the wake of their parents' deaths, how they lost a fortune at the gaming tables, and how they recovered from this addiction
Paperback:
9780156010702 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, May 1, 2001), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In a poignant new memoir, the brothers of deceased author Donald Barthelme describe their harrowing experience with organized gambling in the wake of their parents' deaths, how they lost a fortune at the gaming tables, and how they recovered from this addiction.
Hardcover:
9780670832422 | Viking Pr, September 1, 1993, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Del and Bud, two middle-aged brothers from Biloxi, Mississippi, have never quite grown up and regularly mess up each other's lives, as Bud chases after a glamorous life and Del chases Bud's wife, Margaret
Paperback:
9781582431307 | Counterpoint, April 1, 2001, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: After Del Tribute almost sleeps with his brother's sexually edgy wife, The Brothers sets out to trace and detail the intricate pattern of consequences of this near indiscretion.
Hardcover:
9780671542535 | Simon & Schuster, August 1, 1985, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Weaves a tale of tangled loves and desires in the story of a newly divorced man named Martin who decides to spend a weekend with his ex-sister-in-law Dominica, and promptly becomes her lover
Paperback:
9781582431291 | Counterpoint, March 16, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: 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 .
9780140089691 | Viking Pr, September 1, 1986, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Weaves a tale of tangled loves and desires in the story of a newly divorced man named Martin who decides to spend a weekend with his ex-sister-in-law Dominica, and promptly becomes her lover
Hardcover:
9781582431154 | Counterpoint, October 1, 2000, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Twenty-nine stories celebrating ordinary American life showcase the humor and compassion found amongst the delicate, private, and quiet aspects of surburban life.
Hardcover:
9781576870518 | 1 edition (Power House Books, December 1, 1999), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Trip is celebrated Grapevine photographer Susan Lipper's new, conceptually ambitious artist's book: an assembled narrative of a fictional road trip in America, destination and starting point unknown.
Hardcover:
9780395809778 | Houghton Mifflin, October 1, 1997, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: In a darkly funny love story, Ray and Jewel Kaiser dive headfirst into the gambling lifestyle of middle-class hedonism that has developed near their hometown, only to find themselves yearning for their peaceful earlier world
Paperback:
9780395924747 | Mariner Books, October 1, 1998, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: In a darkly funny love story, Ray and Jewel Kaiser dive headfirst into the gambling lifestyle of middle-class hedonism that has developed near their hometown, only to find themselves yearning for their peaceful earlier world
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780786115402 | Unabridged edition (Blacksmith Corp, June 1, 1999), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: What I'd always liked about Biloxi was the decay, the things falling apart, the crap along the beach, the skeletons of abandoned hotels, the trashy warehouses and the rundown piers jutting out into the dirty water, so I wasn't thrilled that in the last five years our dinky coast town had been turned into an outlet-mall version of Las Vegas, with a dozen cartoon casinos, lots of gussied-up Motel 6 hotel rooms, an ocean of slicked-back hair, and a big increase in unsavory tourists.
9780786112951 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, March 1, 1998), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: What I'd always liked about Biloxi was the decay, the things falling apart, the crap along the beach, the skeletons of abandoned hotels, the trashy warehouses and the rundown piers jutting out into the dirty water, so I wasn't thrilled that in the last five years our dinky coast town had been turned into an outlet-mall version of Las Vegas, with a dozen cartoon casinos, lots of gussied-up Motel 6 hotel rooms, an ocean of slicked-back hair, and a big increase in unsavory tourists.
Hardcover:
9780670864690 | Viking Pr, September 1, 1995, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: 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
Paperback:
9780140242140 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, April 1, 1997), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: 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
Hardcover:
9780671542559 | Simon & Schuster, April 1, 1987, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Exploring the lives of men and women caught in the odd, sad, and funny regimens and rituals of American life, this story collection examines relationships between friends, brothers and sisters, parents and children, husbands and wives, and lovers
Paperback:
9780802134615 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, July 1, 1996), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Frederick Barthelme has been applauded as one of the finest fiction writers in America today.
9780140107531 | Viking Pr, December 1, 1988, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: This story collection examines relationships between friends, brothers and sisters, parents and children, husbands and wives, and lovers
Hardcover:
9781555842147 | Grove Pr, October 1, 1988, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: When his estranged wife, Elise, arrives unannounced on Edward's fortieth birthday, a series of events are set in motion that reveal the workings of a twenty-year marriage
Paperback:
9780802134608 | Grove Pr, June 1, 1996, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Appearing unexpectedly on Edward's fortieth birthday, his estranged wife, Elise, triggers a series of events that will embroil them in a bizarre triangle and strain their fifteen-year marriage to the breaking point
Paperback:
9780802134370 | Grove Pr, October 1, 1995, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: 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.
9780140071306 | Reprint edition (Viking Pr, July 1, 1984), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: This collection of eighteen stories depicts in clearly observed detail the texture of modern life, while illuminating the pathos and strangeness that subtly permeates the everyday
Hardcover:
9780671474416 | Simon & Schuster, September 1, 1984, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The marriage of Henry and Theo--her first, his second--falls on strange times and the two learn the virtues of patience and understanding as they grow into a mature relationship
Paperback:
9780802134363 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, September 1, 1995), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Book by Barthelme, Frederick
9780140082746 | Reprint edition (Viking Pr, December 1, 1985), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: The marriage of Henry and Theo--her first, his second--falls on strange times and the two learn the virtues of patience and understanding as they grow into a mature relationship
Paperback:
9780140132090 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, December 1, 1994), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: After Del Tribute almost sleeps with his brother's sexually edgy wife, The Brothers sets out to trace and detail the intricate pattern of consequences of this near indiscretion.
Hardcover:
9780670831135 | Viking Pr, August 1, 1990, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Seething with outrage at life's injustice, successful executive Roger suddenly takes to behaving oddly, and eventually opens up a completely unorthodox business at a shopping center
Paperback:
9780140128895 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, May 1, 1991), cover price $8.95
Paperback:
9780020304456 | Collier Books, August 1, 1989, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: When his estranged wife, Elise, arrives unannounced on Edward's fortieth birthday, a series of events are set in motion that reveal the workings of a twenty-year marriage
Hardcover:
9780671472689 | Simon & Schuster, August 1, 1983, cover price $2.98 | About this edition: This collection of eighteen stories depicts in clearly observed detail the texture of modern life, while illuminating the pathos and strangeness that subtly permeates the everyday
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