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The selected stories of Richard Bausch.
Van Pelt Library PS3552.A846 A6 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bausch, Richard, 1945-
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
- United States.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 222 pages ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- Modern Library edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Modern Library, 1996.
- Summary:
- This Modern Library edition presents ten acclaimed stories that perfectly showcase Bausch's incisive wit, perception, and artistry. In "Aren't You Happy for Me?" a young woman tries to explain to her outraged father why she is marrying a college professor who is old enough to be her grandfather. In "Police Dreams" a devoted husband is unaware that his wife is about to leave him, yet he is tormented by a recurring nightmare in which their family is stalked by killers. And in the O.
- Henry Award-winning "What Feels Like the World," Bausch renders a portrait of human bonding that seems somehow an antidote to the losses endured by his other characters.
- Contents:
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 0679601899
- 9780679601890
- OCLC:
- 33078696
- Online:
- Publisher description
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