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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.
- Sales Rank: #1137465 in Books
- Brand: Barthelme, Frederick
- Published on: 2014-10-07
- Released on: 2014-10-07
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x 1.00" w x 6.00" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 304 pages
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Praise for There Must Be Some Mistake
"Frederick Barthelme's books are a little jazzy, written in a minor key, like tunes that fool you by seeming to be simple enough to hum, until you realize that you can't mimic the melody. . . . There Must Be Some Mistake is a little miracle of faith, shown to us with an eye-opening attention to some of the glorious, perhaps even redemptive details of our dumbed-down so-called culture."―Ann Beattie
"There Must Be Some Mistake is so warm and funny-here is an appealing character with a sly wit who embraces life fully even while knee-deep in our dreary cultural junk, with an undercurrent of Scandinavian noir. Who but Frederick Barthelme could pull this off? The writing is superb. I wanted the story to go on and on."―Bobbie Ann Mason, author of The Girl in the Blue Beret
"Very nearly alone among his peers, Frederick Barthelme has, over the last thirty-five years, written fiction about what it actually feels like to live in contemporary post-religious, hyper-mediated America. And-even more of a rarity-he works hard to find a way to somehow tolerate/celebrate, with enormous subtlety and without an ounce of sentimentality, our bare-bones existence. In There Must Be Some Mistake, Barthelme has distilled his brutal, crucial vision into useable essence."―David Shields, author of How Literature Changed My Life
"[The reader is] spurred both to keep turning pages and linger over them... There is much to love about this novel."
―Dallas Morning News
"Barthelme, a master of minimalist suburbia-set fiction, returns with a buoyantly offbeat murder tale that doubles as a meditation on everything from contemporary art to Google to mortality... Throughout the novel, his narration provides punchy, wry commentary on the banality of pop culture, but the tone is, ultimately, infectiously optimistic."
―Publishers Weekly
"Barthelme's writing conveys much about the oddities of contemporary life with welcome humor."―Kirkus Reviews
"Frederick Barthelme, that sly master of suburban surrealism and deadpan portraitist of the confused, disengaged 21st-century man... This is the short of vaguely Southern, vaguely menacing, extremely funny human muck at which Barthelme excels. But beneath it all lurks his optimistic outlook."
―Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Pure joy."
―New York Times
"In Barthelme's world, there's no choice but to laugh at the onslaught of mundane terrors... There Must Be Some Mistake often reads like an amusing existential satire of the detective novel."―New York Times Book Review
About the Author
Frederick Barthelme is the author of fourteen previous books of fiction. Until 2010, he directed the writing program at the University of Southern Mississippi and Mississippi Review. He now edits New World Writing, an online magazine started in 1995.
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
Calm, Elegant, Laid Back Truth Telling, on the Rocks
By Pop Bop
Whenever I sit down with a Frederick Barthelme book I know I'm going to have an interesting conversation with grownups. Maybe over a few, but not too many, drinks. Barthelme's characters are usually older, retired from or between jobs, and currently retired from or between lives. They are calm and observant and reflective and you feel that Frederick Barthelme and his characters have lived real lives. The books usually have a bit of plot, because you have to keep moving forward after all, but the plots are usually mild jokes and serve only to keep everything from happening all at once.
If you subscribe to the old saw that the unexamined life is not worth living, well Barthelme's characters have examined lives. Especially in this book, our hero Wallace Webster has been parked by the author in the puckishly named Forgetful Bay so that he can remember some important things, forget some other things, appreciate his present and consider his rapidly dwindling future. And that's exactly what he does. He is provided with a daughter, an ex-wife, an inamorata, (in his words), a real love interest, odd/interesting neighbors and a sort of mystery. That's more than enough to keep the wheels turning until the socko finish.
As always the appeal of the book lies in word play just for sake of word play, and then word play in the service of some interesting, revealing, arresting or simply amusing insight. Barthelme is a master of the small moment, but even tiny pinpricks can hurt like the devil.
This is all a nice break from the current crop of books by young geniuses who keep flashing their MFA's and demanding that I acknowledge their superior cleverness. Cleverness is fine enough, I guess. When David Foster Wallace noted that "Super 8" motel sounds just like "suppurate" motel I admired the clever wordplay but was at the same time annoyed by the smug cuteness of it all. Barthelme never indulges himself in such obvious show. (More to the point, so many current novelists remind me of people who go to the aquarium for a day, look through the glass of the tanks, and think they are fish. Barthelme feels, or at least writes, like someone who has actually at least gotten wet. But that's just me.)
So, my grumpy screed aside, the upshot for me is that Barthelme is a restrained, subtle, generous craftsman who says interesting things in an unstructured but compelling and often amusing fashion. A nice choice.
Please note that I received a free advance ecopy of this book in exchange for a candid review. Apart from that I have no connection at all to either the author or the publisher of this book.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
The Fabric of the Thing
By muckmuckson
Some of the other reviewers here seem to be uncertain what this book is "about", but there's a passage where Barthelme lets his characters explain it quite plainly.
On page 260, you'll find Jilly and Wallace chatting about the Lisbeth Salander "dragon tattoo" movies. Jilly says, "I think we need to watch these over again. If you read the Wikipedia page, the whole thing makes sense, but I never quite got the whole story before." And our narrator responds:
"I'm guessing that's not so important... It's more the fabric of the thing, the atmosphere, the climate, the mood, the character, the feel of it, this girl, against all, this wonderful girl, her extraordinary power, David and Goliath, the feel overall, the way everything feels is what's important."
"That's a pretty negative attitude toward narrative in film," she said.
"It's like THE KILLING," I said. "It's all about the tiny stuff that goes on between the characters, the shadows, eyebrows, looks in the eyes. All that endless rain. Her face through a smeared car window. His voice coiling up an octave then fading when teasing her."
"Got it," she said.
There's a plot here, a mystery even, startling events, shocking revelations and so forth, but it's all a bit of a red herring. THERE MUST BE SOME MISTAKE is really about "the tiny stuff that goes on between the characters," "the fabric of the thing." Barthelme is a master at uncovering precise, unsentimental truth in the smallest, most mundane moments, and this is one of his best books: "The way everything feels is what's important."
DISCLAIMER: this review may well be biased, but I did pay full retail price for the hardcover edition.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Give this book some time and it will win you over.
By Susan Drees
This has been such an interesting reading experience. Wallace Webster began as a man I really didn't know whether I cared about. Did I want to continue to read about his life in retirement, the sometimes strange variety of people who lived in his condo complex in Kemah Texas, the various females in his life--ex-wife, daughter, deceased wife, neighbor-femme-fatale, and others? But then something happened...Wallace grew on me and Barthelme's style won me over completely. He is a sneaky writer. He lets his characters talk their way into your mind...and they do talk, a lot...as you or I would do, sometimes. They gossip and worry and think out loud and ponder meanings. And sometimes do silly or stupid things. And they worry about the present and the future.
Wallace does worry about his future and who will be in it. Meanwhile, residents of his condo complex seem to be dying unusual deaths. There is no earth-shattering activity here but multiple everyday instances of people being people, acting, reacting, interacting, hoping for a bright day to come. Barthelme uses the language of everyday to suck the reader in and he doesn't let go until the very last word.
This is my first experience of Barthelme's work but unlikely to be the last.
A copy of this book was provided by the publisher through NetGalley in return for an honest review.
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