Read The Stories Of Richard Bausch (2004)

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Author

Richard Bausch

Genre

Fiction

Rating

4.18 of 5 Votes: 2

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ISBN

0060956224 (ISBN13: 9780060956226)

Language

English

Publisher

harper perennial

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The Stories Of Richard Bausch (2004) - Plot & Excerpts

I enjoyed the stories in this collection, but honestly, I think it is perhaps best to not read through this as one would a novel. This being a library book, I felt obligated to get it read and attempt to return it by the due date. These stories all deal with sad or emotional moments and I felt a little relieved dropping it in the return slot in the library. On to happier stories. I will definitely read more by Bausch though. Even in the shorter stories he had a way of pulling me in after the first paragraph and feeling like I really knew what was going on with the characters.

The stories hold up because of an underlying generosity of the creator. I didn't read every story, but found some interesting favorites. Unfortunately, the most publicized includes a wedding cake placed in the middle of a road and anyone who has built or delivered a wedding cake would know it would have to be an unrecognizable clump of cake and frosting after the series of adventures it would surely not survive. but other than that, the characterization of Tandolfo is convincing. After all, he is not in his right mind from too much tippling.

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Fans of Raymond Carver may well enjoy the work of Richard Bausch, who has yet to catch on here in Britain. Some of my favourites include 'Par', 'Riches' (a grimly comic tale about winning the lottery) and the moving 'The Fireman's Wife'. So far as I know, he is the only American author to take up James Kelman's technique for using a row of three dots to indicate a silence during conversation, and it pays a dividend of hilarity in a story about a phone sex provider and her client.His novel Peace is worth checking out too.
—Ryan Williams