Richard Bausch

• 1981
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• Sep-1988
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• Aug-1991
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“To read the fiction of Richard Bausch is to be hugely moved, to be in touch with the depths of experience, to be present at the creation of a monument to human worth.” ―Newsday

• Mar-1993
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In this shattering novel, a man walks into a convenience store--which turns out to be precisely the wrong place at the wrong time. The near-death and seemingly arbitrary survival of Charles Connally are rendered with a realism, horror, and compassion...

• Jul-1994
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A collection of short stories reflects the shadowy workings of the human heart in the business of everyday life with titles such as Aren't You Happy for Me, High-Heeled Shoe, and The Natural Effects of Divorce. ...

• Sep-1994
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• Apr-1995
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• Sep-1996
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The critics have been effusive in their praise for Richard Bausch's Good Evening Mr. and Mrs. America and All the Ships at Sea.His hardover sales have also never been higher.Taking its title from Walter Winchell's famous radio salutation, Good Even...

• Dec-1996
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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 conte...

• Jun-1998
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Nora Michaelson and her eleven-year-old son, Jason. are going through a difficult adjustment to life after the accidental death of Jason's father. at a time when the family's small business was failing. The loss of Jack Michaelson has left his wife a...

• Jun-1999
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"The essential mystery at the heart of every relationship is the subject of these twelve stories. What drives people together? What drives them apart? Revenge, boredom, sex -- they're all here. . . . The landscape of the heart depicted here is less b...

• Oct-1999
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This novel charts the progress of Monsignor Vincent Shepherd, a priest assigned to a rural parish after a heart attack. The story focuses on his encounters with the unwashed and demanding Bexley family. Can he learn to accept and love the unlovable, ...

• Apr-2001
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To drink deep of the direction and sensibility of contemporary southern fiction, savor each dram in this delectable volume. Nineteen of the South’s most venerable writers―Madison Smartt Bell, Doris Betts, Fred Chappell, Ellen Douglas, Shelby F...

• Sep-2002
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"My heart stopped peacefully, its beating grew slow and weak, and then just -- stopped. I died young. There is, really, only a little to tell." Explorer Mary Kingsley ignored the narrowly circumscribed roles and rules for a Victorian young woma...

• Nov-2003
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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 th...

• Jul-2004
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Wives & Lovers is a collection of three short novels from the author whom the Boston Globe calls "one of the most expert and substantial of our writers." Requisite Kindness -- published here for the first time -- tells the story of a man who must co...

• Jan-2006
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The classroom standard for readers and aspiring writers of fiction, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction offers the most comprehensive, engaging selection of classic and contemporary stories in the field.

• Oct-2006
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Richard Bausch calls this, his tenth novel, "a love comedy with sorrows." The story is set in the small Virginia valley town of Point Royal, where several of Bausch's other novels and many of his stories take place. It is 1999; predictions of catastr...

• Oct-2007
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Critically acclaimed novelist and short story writer Richard Bausch continues the tradition of identifying the best young writers on the cusp of their careers in this year’s volume of Best New American Voices. Here are stories culled from hundreds ...

• Apr-2008
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From the prize-winning novelist and world-renowned short story writer, recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award and the Academy Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters, a powerful novel about war, trust, and salvation that begs to be read in a single si...

• Oct-2009
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In his first collection of poetry and prose, award-winning fiction writer Richard Bausch proves that he is also an accomplished poet. Penned over a span of many years, the poems in These Extremes deal with a wide variety of subjects. Many focus on Ba...

• Feb-2010
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A husband confronts the power of youth and the inexorable truths of old age. A son sits by his mother's bedside determined to give her what she needs in her final days, even though doing so means breaking his own heart. A brief adulterous tryst illum...

• Aug-2014
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When Natasha, a talented young artist working as a congressional aide, meets Michael Faulk, an Episcopalian priest struggling with his faith, the stars seem to align. Within months they are engaged. Shortly before their wedding, while Natasha is vaca...

• Apr-2017
• / Literary
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In these fourteen indelible stories, Richard Bausch once again proves himself a modern master. From the prize-winning novelist and universally acclaimed short story writer ("Richard Bausch is a master of the short story" --The New York Times Book ...

• Jan-2021
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A powerful coda to Richard Bausch’s “brilliant” (The New York Times Book Review) World War II novel, Peace, the basis for the film Recon.   Originally published in Living in the Weather of the World, this poignant short story picks up the...

• Feb-2023
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From the prize-winning fiction writer Richard Bausch (“A master of the novel as well as the story . . . Effortlessly engaging” -- Sven Birkerts, The New York Times), a sharp, affecting, masterly new novel about a close-knit theater community in ...

• May-2025
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A new collection of short stories examining the extraordinary shades of ordinary life, from the prize-winning fiction writer Richard Bausch (“A master of the short story" -- The New York Times Book Review)In ten piercing new stories, Richard Bausc...