The Selected Stories of Richard Bausch (Modern Library Series)

by Richard Bausch

Overview

Richard Bausch is a master of the short story—and this selection brings together ten pieces which perfectly showcase his incisive wit, perception, and artistry. “He brings to life characters and situations as vivid and compelling as any in contemporary literature.”—Michael Dorris, The Washington Post Book World

Including these stories:

“The Man Who Knew Belle Starr”
“Police Dreams”
“What Feels Like the World”
“Design”
“The Eyes of Love”
“The Fireman’s Wife”
“Consolation”
“Letter to the Lady of the House”
“Aren’t You Happy for Me?”
“High-Heeled Shoe”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780679640172
Publisher:	Random House Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/23/1996
Series:	Modern Library Series
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Richard Bausch is the author of twelve novels and eight volumes of short stories. He is a recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Award, and the Literature Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire, Playboy, GQ, Harper's Magazine, and other publications, and has been featured in numerous best-of collections, including The O. Henry Prize Stories, Best American Short Stories, and New Stories from the South. He is a graduate of Iowa's MFA program and is currently a professor of English at Chapman University in Orange, California.

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The Man Who Knew Belle Starr
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What People are Saying About This

George Garrett

"Bausch offers a unique voice and a unity of vision which are firmly based upon assumptions of care, concern, compassion and a rare and committed beliefs that the lives of its characters, young and old, male and female, virtuous and wicked, matter. Thus these stories matter and come to move us by an art which at once genuinine and deeply honest."