The Stories of Richard Bausch
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24/11/2004 |
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A 2004 PEN/Malamud Award winner, this collection celebrates the work of American artist Richard Bausch -- a writer the New York Times calls "a master of the short story." By turns tender, raw, heartbreaking, and riotously funny, the many voices of this definitive forty-two-story collection (seven of which appear here for the first time) defy expectation, attest to Bausch's remarkable range and versatility, and affirm his place alongside such acclaimed story writers as John Cheever, Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, and Grace Paley.
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Critical Praise for
The Stories of Richard Bausch
"A master storyteller at his finest."
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Charlotte Observer
"Bausch writes about things that matter."
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Raleigh News & Observer
"Bausch [is] a magical storyteller."
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Beautiful ... a delight to read."
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San Francisco Chronicle
"Effortlessly engaging...that closing the book feels like pushing the door shut on some clamorous party."
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New York Times Book Review
"A literary treasure."
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Richmond Times-Dispatch
"Bausch draws the reader into lives that seem real. His characters look and sound like ... ourselves."
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Seattle Times
"Bausch draws the reader into lives that seem real. His characters look and sound like our co-workers, friends, neighbors--like ourselves."
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Seattle Times
"Precision of thought, the philosophical framework of a true aesthetic, pervades these stories."
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Village Voice
"Perfection … many deserve inclusion among the best American stories of the past 20 years."
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Boston Globe
"Richard Bausch is, simply, one of our greatest short story writers."
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Andrea Barrett
"The book for which Bausch will be remembered....A fine, fat collection of 42 tales."
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Kirkus Reviews (Starred)
Grade: ‘A’ "Read just a few of these staggeringly literate and well-observed short fictions and you’ll soon realize that it’s not only God who dwells in the details."
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Entertainment Weekly
"A memorable collection."
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Boston Herald
"Richard Bausch is a master of the short story."
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New York Times Book Review
"No writer has a finer insight into the delicate nuances of the human heart than Richard Bausch."
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Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
"Richard Bausch is a master of the short-story form, capturing the everyday lives of ordinary people with a flair and eye that make the mundane exciting and suspenseful."
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Chicago Tribune
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Thanksgiving Night
Will Butterfield can't believe it. His 75–year–old mother, Holly, is drunk and threatening to jump off the roof. Again. Holly and Fiona, another elderly relative, won't stop tormenting Will and his wife Elizabeth with their bizarre (though often amusing) antics. Between Will's worries...
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Hello to the Cannibals
At first, all Lily Austin knows about 19th–century explorer Mary Kingsley is that, 100 years before, she was the first white woman to venture into the heart of Africa. But as Lily begins reading about Mary Kingsley, she becomes more and more fascinated – and discovers in Mary a kindred...
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