Someone to Watch Over Me: Stories by - Hardcover

Bausch, Richard

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9780060173333: Someone to Watch Over Me: Stories by

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ISBN 10: 0060173335 ISBN 13: 9780060173333

Publisher: Harper, 1999

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Someone to Watch Over Me brings together twelve stories by one of America's most honored writers of the short story.

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 as Richard Bausch, and a few capture the poignancy of the sudden insight or the rhythms of ordinary conversation with such delicacy and humor.

To read this book 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.

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About the Author:

Richard Bausch is the author of nine other novels and seven volumes of short stories. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Playboy, GQ, Harper's Magazine, and other publications, and has been featured in numerous best-of collections, including the O. Henry Awards' Best American Short Stories and New Stories from the South. In 2004 he won the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story.

Review:

"Mr. Bausch's stories have a restorative quality. They demonstrate the power of crisp, unsparing lucidity. They may not cheer you up, but they'll make you glad you read them." -- Wall Street Journal

Someone to Watch Over Me is perhaps best enjoyed in small doses.... Read individually, though, Mr. Bausch's stories have a restorative quality. They demonstrate the power of crisp, unsparing lucidity. They may not cheer you up, but they'll make you glad you read them. -- The Wall Street Journal, Eric Grode

"Among the most masterful of American fiction writers. . . . Employing a variety of tones and techniques...Bausch again casts colorful light on contemporary humanity, letting us see ourselves as in a glass, less darkly." -- Boston Globe

"In his fifth story collection, Bausch delightfully proves himself the chronicler of faultsnot wrongs, but the shy, ambiguous, and sometimes disastrous ways we don't quite get each other. . . .Short fiction is widely regarded as Bausch's strongest genre, and this engaging collection can only fortify that impression." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review.

"Perhaps, on consideration, it is misleading to say that his characters are ordinary people, for against the unthinking rush of our current culture, they seek a pattern in life. They are inarticulate neither in voice nor thought." -- Bette Pesetsky, New York Times Book Review

"Richard Bausch is a master of the short story...He brings to life characters and situations as vivid and compelling as any in contemporary literature. Bausch's literary voice is reminiscent of no one else's; he is an original." -- Milwaukee Journal

"Some writers seem to have an instinctive sensitivity to human emotion. They seem to be able to reach inside human experience, responding to its variety instead of its limitations, and they have the rarest of abilities to record the nuances of this experience to create literature. Richard Bausch...is one of those rare mater writers, and his power continues to grow." -- Richmond Times-Dispatch

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