Title: The selected stories of Richard Bausch
First published: 1996
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.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author)
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS3552.A846 A6 1996