NATURAL SELECTION <i> By Frederick Barthelme (Viking: $18.95; 208 pp.) </i>
“Barthelme’s battle with his own literary occasion has these roughnesses. No battle is ever tidy. Some, such as this one, are supremely worthwhile.”
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