Bibliograph

There must be some mistake, a novel, Frederick Barthelme

Type

Label

There must be some mistake, a novel, Frederick Barthelme

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

There must be some mistake

Oclc number

870199608

Responsibility statement

Frederick Barthelme

Sub title

a novel

Summary

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 offbeat affair that begins with his being locked in an Airstream trailer attached to the roof of her restaurant. He sifts through the curious accidents that plague his neighbors, all the while reflecting on his past and shortening future. Required to ponder his own mortality, he wonders if "settling for" something less than he aspired to is a kind of cowardice, or just good sense

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