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Law of Averages by Frederick Barthelme (2001, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCounterpoint Press
ISBN-101582431574
ISBN-139781582431574
eBay Product ID (ePID)1852143
Product Key Features
Book TitleLaw of Averages
Number of Pages384 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2001
TopicShort Stories (Single Author), American / General
GenrePoetry, Fiction
AuthorFrederick Barthelme
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight13 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
SynopsisThe landscape of networking has changed so that network services have now become one of the most important factors to the success of many third generation networks. It has become a feature of the designer's job to define the problems that exist in his network, choose and analyse several optimization parameters during the analysis process, and then prioritize and evaluate these parameters in the architecture and design of the system., Twenty years ago Frederick Barthelme began publishing stories that turned readers' expectations on their heads. In The New Yorker , Esquire , GQ , and elsewhere he published story after story that confounded the prevailing literary assumptions, treating our very ordinary lives with a new kind of careful and loving attention and imagination. He wrote intimate, funny, odd, detailed, laugh-out-loud stories about relationships that almost happen and ones that almost don't, about the ways we look at each other when we mean things we cannot bring ourselves to say. Before there were slackers, or kids in parking lots, or stories that took the mundane seriously, there were these prescient stories by Frederick Barthelme. He took a post-ironic stance before the post-ironic had a name. He took fiction where few were then willing to go, took as his subject small romances, private fears, suburban estrangement, office angst, cultural isolation, apparently insignificant humiliations, and the growing information surplus (CNN is a sociological novel, he once remarked). He wrote--and continues to write--with a laser-surgery precision that stuns and delights both readers and critics. If he arrived at the new-literature party a little earlier than the other guests, he has not left early, and is thus well represented in The Law of Averages , with old and new stories side by side, ready to give up their abundant pleasures.
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