Living in the Weather of the World
  • Published: 15 April 2018
  • ISBN: 9780525431855
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 258
  • RRP: $34.99

Living in the Weather of the World

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In fourteen extraordinary new tales, the PEN/Malamud Award-winning master of the short story probes the fault lines of everyday life.

In stories by turns suspenseful, comic, subtle, and profound, Richard Bausch probes the fault lines of daily life. At three in the morning a man tries not to wake his sleeping wife while fielding calls from his suicidal mistress. A successful real estate agent with two grown sons tries an online dating service on a whim and is surprised by the complicated result. And after being held up at gunpoint, a police officer commiserates with his assailant about their unhappy marriages. Wherever he casts his gaze, Bausch illuminates shades of human experience that defy understanding.
  • Published: 15 April 2018
  • ISBN: 9780525431855
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 258
  • RRP: $34.99
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About the author

Richard Bausch

Equally at home with long or short fiction, prolific, award-winning novelist Richard Bausch a contemporary American writer whose work has often been compared to that of Ernest Hemingway.

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Praise for Living in the Weather of the World

  • "Every word feels perfect. The stories here aren't just entertaining; they demonstrate just how exciting and resonant ... short fiction can be." --Houston Chronicle
  • "Taut and dark, saturated with moments of longing and regret.... Bausch, a short-story master, writes beautiful sentences, and though his tales center around ... moments of reckoning and despair, they pulse with something glowing and true." --The Boston Globe
  • "[Living in the Weather of the World] puts the reader in mind of Flannery O'Connor's ability to open out a story into dangerous, unknown territory.... That Bausch can deliver ... convincing humanity, no matter the initial angle of ascent, is a testament to his powers of technique and observation." --The New York Times Book Review
  • "Surprising, diverting, and endearing.... Every one of these stories is a treasure....[Bausch] is king of the genre in America." --The Buffalo News
  • "Sublime.... [A] masterly collection." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)