Frederick Barthelme
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Frederick Barthelme
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.
In Elroy Nights, Frederick Barthelme does a fresh turn on territory he’s made his own over the last two decades: a middle-class America studded with characters maybe a little more wised-up than not—cautious, skeptical, private folks who would rather joke about their problems than complain about them.
Elroy Nights is a reasonably successful artist and professor, fifty-something, who is caught between the…
