“To read the fiction of Richard Bausch is to be hugely moved, to be in touch with the depths of experience, to be present at the creation of a monument to human worth.” —
Newsday
Richard Bausch gets deep inside of people's lives. Richard Bausch gets deep inside of people's lives. He speaks eloquently for and to all of us about the intricacies of relationships—their fragility and their inherent possibility for explosion. His work has been published in
The New Yorker
,
Esquire
, and the
Atlantic Monthly
; two of the stories in this collection were chosen for
Best American Short Stories
.