num_pages: 240
description: Elroy and his wife, Clare, elect to try living separately, a choice characteristic of their relationship-fond, thoughtful, generous to a fault, and more than a little cracked. So Elroy leases a high-rise beach condo, begins hanging out with his twenty-something students, and experiences a splendid re-enchantment with the world. With his trademark precision and pitch-perfect dialogue, Barthelme elegantly lays open this interweaving of twenty-year olds with their fifty-something fellow traveler. The result is a lovely, lilting romance, and a spare yet generous masterpiece from a writer at the top of his form.
language: English
title: Elroy Nights
titlecomplete: Elroy Nights
genres: Novels, Fiction
ratings_count: 114
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
publisher: Counterpoint