There Must Be Some Mistake

by Frederick Barthelme

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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.
  • ISBN10 031623124X
  • ISBN13 9780316231244
  • Publish Date 7 October 2014 (first published 1 January 2014)
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Little Brown and Company
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 304
  • Language English