Richard Bausch

Wives & Lovers (eBook, ePUB)

Three Short Novels

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A first-rate collection of novellas that will break your heart and fill you with hope at the same time. Denver Rocky Mountain News

In the tradition of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marquez comes Wives and Lovers, from the author the Boston Globe calls One of the most expert and substantial of our writers.

Requisite Kindnesspublished here for the first timetells the story of a man who must comes to terms with a life of treating women badly when he goes to live with his sister and dying mother. Rare and Endangered Species demonstrates how a wife and mother's suicide reverberates in the small community where she lives, and affects the lives of people who don't even know her. Finally, Spirits is about the pain that men and women canand doinflict upon each other. Three very different stories that illuminate the unadorned core of lovenot the showy, more celebrated sort, but what remains when the more ephemeral emotions such as lust, jealousy, and passion have been stripped away.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780061758652
• Artikelnr.: 37999634

Autorenporträt

Richard Bausch is the author of nine other novels and seven volumes of short stories. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Playboy, GQ, Harper's Magazine, and other publications, and has been featured in numerous best-of collections, including the O. Henry Awards' Best American Short Stories and New Stories from the South. In 2004 he won the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story.