{"product_id":"natural-selection-isbn-9781582431314","title":"Natural Selection","description":"Peter Wexler is 40 and obsessed with what's wrong in the world, including his marriage. Deciding that a change of scenery might help, Peter leaves his wife and their son in search of a resolution to the confusion, estrangement, fatigue, and adultery that have confounded his life.\u003cb\u003eFrederick Barthelme\u003c\/b\u003e was a founding member, with Mayo Thompson, of the art\/noise\/psychedelic rock band Red Krayola, and a painter and conceptual artist in Houston and New York in the late 1960s. He has published fiction and nonfiction in \u003ci\u003eFiction\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEpoch\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGQ\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 American Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFrank\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. The memoir, \u003ci\u003eDouble Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss\u003c\/i\u003e, was co-authored with his brother Steven, and was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of the Year. The same honor was awarded his retrospective collection of stories, \u003ci\u003eThe Law of Averages\u003c\/i\u003e and his novel \u003ci\u003eElroy Nights\u003c\/i\u003e, which was also one of five finalists for the 2004 PEN\/Faulkner Award. In 2009 he published \u003ci\u003eWaveland\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel set on the Mississippi Gulf Coast a year after Katrina. In 2010 he won the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction.","brand":"Counterpoint","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304245121253,"sku":"NP9781582431314","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781582431314.jpg?v=1767733575","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/natural-selection-isbn-9781582431314","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}