The Stories of Richard Bausch

by Bausch, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780060956226
• ISBN10: 0060956224
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

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 this definitive forty-two-story collection (seven of which appear here for the first time) defy expectation, attest to Bausch's remarkable range and versatility, and affirm his place alongside such acclaimed story writers as John Cheever, Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, and Grace Paley.

Author Biography

Richard Bausch served in the Air Force 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 1974-75. He has taught creative writing at the University of Michigan, the University of Virginia, Breadloaf, the University of the South, and elsewhere; currently he holds the Heritage Chair from the Writing Program at George Mason University. Bausch's novels include Hello to the Cannibals, The Last Good Time, Mr. Field's Daughter, and In the Night Season. 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 co-editor of the prestigious Norton Anthology of Short Fiction and the recipient of the Lila Wallace -- Reader's Digest Writer's Award and the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Nobody in Hollywood	1	(13)
Valor	14	(17)
Riches	31	(16)
Self Knowledge	47	(3)
Glass Meadow	50	(17)
Par	67	(18)
Someone to Watch Over Me	85	(18)
Fatality	103	(23)
The Voices from the Other Room	126	(13)
Two Altercations	139	(15)
1951	154	(2)
The Man Who Knew Belle Starr	156	(22)
What Feels Like the World	178	(16)
Ancient History	194	(19)
Contrition	213	(9)
Police Dreams	222	(16)
Wise Men at Their End	238	(19)
Wedlock	257	(10)
Old West	267	(25)
Design	292	(15)
The Fireman's Wife	307	(23)
Consolation	330	(14)
The Brace	344	(17)
The Eyes of Love	361	(12)
Luck	373	(8)
Equity	381	(17)
Letter to the Lady of the House	398	(9)
Aren't You Happy for Me?	407	(14)
Not Quite Final	421	(17)
Weather	438	(19)
High-Heeled Shoe	457	(17)
Tandolfo the Great	474	(12)
Evening	486	(15)
Billboard	501	(10)
The Person I Have Mostly Become	511	(15)
1-900	526	(19)
"My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun"	545	(17)
The Weight	562
Accuracy	519	(77)
Unjust	596	(20)
Guatemala	616	(23)
The Last Day of Summer	639