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Authors: Richard Bausch
The Stories of Richard Bausch (96 page)
Most of these stories
, some in varying degrees of difference in form or shape, have appeared in the following magazines and anthologies:
The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, Esquire, Harper’s, Playboy, Gentleman’s Quarterly, The Southern Review, Redbook, Doubletake, Wig Wag, Five Points, Glimmer Train Stories, Best American Short Stories, Best of the West, New Stories from the South, 0. Henry Prize Stories, The Granta Book of the American Short Story, The Vintage Book of the American Short Story,
and
God: Stories.
R
ICHARD
B
AUSCH
served in the Air Force (with his twin brother, novelist Robert Bausch) from 1965 to 1969. He and his wife, Karen, were married in 1969 and have lived in Virginia since 1971; they have five children. After stints as a singer-songwriter and a stand-up comic, Bausch attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1974–1975 with Allan Gurganus and Jane Smiley. He has taught creative writing at the University of Michigan, the University of Virginia, Breadloaf, the University of the South, and elsewhere, and he holds the Heritage Chair from the Writing Program at George Mason University. Bausch is the author of
Hello to the Cannibals, The Last Good Time, Mr. Field’s Daughter, In the Night Season, Wives & Lovers,
and many other books. His stories have appeared in numerous prize-winning anthologies, including
Best American Short Stories, O’Henry,
and
Pushcart,
and have won two National Magazine Awards—one for
The New Yorker
and one for
The Atlantic Monthly.
He is the coeditor of the prestigious
Norton Anthology of Short Fiction
and the recipient of numerous prizes, including the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Story Excellence, the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writer’s Award, and the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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The Stories of Richard Bausch
“Effortlessly engaging…. So alive are these characters … that closing the book feels like pushing the door shut on some clamorous party.”
—New York Times Book Review
“Beautiful…. A delight to read…. A rich portrait of a productive career…. Bausch [has] a great talent—in the very small space of a short story he can illuminate lifetimes with astonishing clarity and poignancy.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“Bausch writes about things that matter.”
—Raleigh News & Observer
“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.”
—
Entertainment Weekly
“The book for which Bausch will be remembered…. A fine, fat collection of forty-two tales … distinguished by characters whose complexity is simply and economically suggested.”
—Kirkus Reviews
(starred review)
“Richard Bausch is a master of the short-story form, capturing everyday lives … with a flair and eye that make the mundane exciting and suspenseful.”
—Chicago Tribune
“A memorable collection.”
—Boston Herald
“A master storyteller at his finest.”
—Charlotte Observer
“This collection of tales establishes Bausch as a magical storyteller. He turns ordinary, recognizable characters in tense, trying situations into amusing, compelling stories that are sad and funny simultaneously.”
—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“A literary treasure.”
—
Richmond Times-Dispatch
“Precision of thought, the philosophical framework of a true aesthetic, pervades these stories.”
—Village Voice
“Bausch draws the reader into lives that seem real. His characters look and sound like our coworkers, friends, neighbors—like ourselves.”
—Seattle Times
Real Presence,
1980
Take Me Back,
1981
The Last Good Time,
1984
Spirits, and Other Stories,
1987
Mr. Field’s Daughter,
1989
The Fireman’s Wife, and Other Stories,
1990
Violence,
1992
Rebel Powers,
1993
Rare & Endangered Species: Stories and a Novella,
1994
Selected Stories of Richard Bausch
(The Modern Library), 1996
Good Evening Mr. & Mrs. America, and All the Ships at Sea,
1996
In the Night Season,
1998
Someone to Watch Over Me: Stories,
1999
Hello to the Cannibals,
2002
Wives & Lovers: Three Short Novels,
2004
A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2003 by HarperCollins Publishers.
THE STORIES OF RICHARD BAUSCH.
Copyright © 2003 by Richard Bausch.
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The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:
Bausch, Richard.
[Short stories. Selections]
The stories of Richard Bausch / Richard Bausch.—1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-06-019649-1
1. United Slates—Social life and customs—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3552.A846A6 2003
813’.54-dc21 2003042318
ISBN 0-06-095622-4 (pbk.)
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