American fiction writer. Younger brother of Donald Barthelme. Works include Two Against One, Chroma, Second Marriage, and a new collaboration with his brother, Stephen, also a writer, entitled Double Down. Bartheleme is the exact antithesis of his brother. Where Donald's writings were achingly post-modern Frederick's eschew self-referential narrative tricks for a clinical dissection of late-20th century suburban life.

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