The selected stories of Richard Bausch.
Edition: Modern Library ed.
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Description: This Modern Library edition presents ten acclaimed stories that perfectly showcase Bausch's incisive wit, perception, and artistry. In "Aren't You Happy for Me?" a young woman tries to explain to her outraged father why she is marrying a college professor who is old enough to be her grandfather. In "Police Dreams" a devoted husband is unaware that his wife is about to leave him, yet he is tormented by a recurring nightmare in which their family is stalked by killers. And in the O.

Henry Award-winning "What Feels Like the World," Bausch renders a portrait of human bonding that seems somehow an antidote to the losses endured by his other characters.
Table of contents: title: The man who knew Belle Starr; title: Police dreams; title: What feels like the world; title: Design; title: The eyes of love; title: The fireman's wife; title: Consolation; title: Letter to the lady of the house; title: Aren't you happy for me?; title: High-heeled shoe.