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Great Pyramids: Collected Stories

Great Pyramids: Collected Stories

Barthelme, Frederick
Ellis, Bret Easton

Hardcover

Literary Fiction

Publisher Price: $27.99

ISBN10: 1648211232
ISBN13: 9781648211232
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Published: Apr 8 2025
Pages: 504
Weight: 1.55
Height: 1.60 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Frederick Barthelme's fiction portrays the immensity of feeling that saturates the uneventful details of ordinary life. From parking lots to grocery stores, and swimming pools to morning traffic, the inner landscape of Barthelme's characters is one of underlying tension arising from the seemingly mundane. Meaning breaks down and is doubled, and becomes a representation of the small in-between spaces--lyrical, mysterious, ordinary--within the routines of daily life.

Starting out his career as a musician in a psychedelic noise band, and later as a conceptual artist, Barthelme's breakthrough short fiction soon became a staple of the New Yorker--expanding to eleven novels, short story collections, screenplays, and a memoir. The Great Pyramids includes early classics such as Cut Glass, Aluminum House, and Shopgirls, as well as later works such as Retreat and Socorro and previously unpublished stories.

The overall sense of angst and isolation in Barthelme's work--and the urgent need to connect with family, friends, lovers, and strangers--has become even more relevant to our time. This career-spanning collection reflects Barthelme's compassionate, wry, beguilingly deep observations of cultural estrangement and floating dread--and his sardonic, sometimes absurdist, commonplace-bleak, yet compassionate understanding of how we relate to one another in a world that subverts relationships yet dares us to try. As Bret Easton Ellis conveys in his foreword, Barthelme showed us a new way to look at the world, and helped redefine the short story: a signal heard by writers--and readers--of younger generations.

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