num_pages: 224
description: Richard Bausch is a master of the intimate moment, of the ways we seek to make lasting connections to one another and to the world. Few writers evoke the complexities of love as subtly, and few capture the poignancy of the sudden insight or the rhythms of ordinary conversation with such delicacy and humor. To read these twelve stories--of love and loss, of families and strangers, of small moments and enormous epiphanies--is to be reminded again of the power of short fiction to thrill and move us, to make us laugh, or cry. In these profound glimpses into the private fears, joys, and sorrows of people we know, we find revealed a whole range of human experience, told with extraordinary force, clarity, and compassion.
language: English
title: Someone to Watch Over Me
titlecomplete: Someone to Watch Over Me
genres: Literary Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories
ratings_count: 169
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Library of Virginia Literary Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Harper Perennial