num_pages: 160
description: From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story and “one of our most gifted writers” ( Chicago Tribune )—these ten stories show make everyday experiences seem utterly unprecedented, even as Baxter reminds us, gently and with a sly comic twist, that everything they feel is only the collateral damage of being human.Whether he is writing about the players in a rickety bisexual love triangle or a woman visiting her husband in a nursing home, probing the psychic mainspring of a grimly obsessive weight lifter or sifting through the layers of resentment, need, and pity in a friendship that has gone on a few decades too long, Baxter enchants us with the elegant balance of his prose and the unexpectedness of his insights. Harmony of the World is a masterpiece of lucidity and compassion.
language: English
title: Harmony of the World: Stories
titlecomplete: Harmony of the World: Stories
genres: Fiction, Short Stories
ratings_count: 220
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction
publisher: Vintage