{"product_id":"great-pyramids-collected-stories-hardcover","title":"Great Pyramids: Collected Stories - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrederick Barthelme\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBret Easton Ellis\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrederick 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e--expanding to eleven novels, short story collections, screenplays, and a memoir. \u003ci\u003e The Great Pyramids\u003c\/i\u003e 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\"Aluminum House,\" and \"Shopgirls,\" as well as later works such as \"Retreat\" and \"Socorro\" and previously unpublished stories. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrederick Barthelme\u003c\/b\u003e studied fiction with John Barth at the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, from which he received his Master of Arts degree. From 1977 to 2010 he taught fiction writing and directed the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. He won numerous awards including individual grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and diverse grants and awards as editor of \u003ci\u003eMississippi Review \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMississippi Review Online\u003c\/i\u003e, which he founded and edited. He is the author of sixteen books of fiction and nonfiction and has been published in \u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFiction\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKansas Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEpoch\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTriQuarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNorth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFrank Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, Th\u003ci\u003ee Southern Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. His work has been translated into nine languages. His memoir, \u003ci\u003eDouble Down: Reflections on\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eGambling and Loss\u003c\/i\u003e, co-authored with his brother Steven, was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book of the Year. The same honor was awarded to his collection, Th\u003ci\u003ee Law of Averages\u003c\/i\u003e. His novel \u003ci\u003eElroy Nights \u003c\/i\u003ewas also a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book of the Year and was a 2004 PEN\/Faulkner Award finalist. In 2010 he won the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction and is presently editor and publisher of the online literary publication \u003ci\u003eNew World Writing \u003c\/i\u003e(previously \u003ci\u003eBlip Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 504\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.6 x 9.1 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 08, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44378918486118,"sku":"9781648211232","price":36.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/M40wBrmFUp9781648211232.webp?v=1768912716","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/great-pyramids-collected-stories-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}