| Wives & Lovers: Three Short Novels Contributor(s): Bausch, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060571837 ISBN-13: 9780060571832 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $13.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2004 Annotation: "Wives & Lovers" is a collection of three short novels from the author whom the "Boston Globe" calls "one of the most expert and substantial of our writers." "Requisite Kindness" -- published here for the first time -- tells the story of a man who must come to terms with a life of treating women badly when he goes to live with his sister and dying mother. "Rare & Endangered Species" demonstrates how a wife and mother's suicide reverberates in the small community where she lived, and affects the lives of people who don't even know her. Finally, "Spirits" is about the pain that men and women can -- and do -- inflict upon each other. These three very different works illuminate the unadorned core of love -- not the showy, more celebrated sort but what remains when lust, jealousy, and passion have been stripped away. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Sea Stories - Fiction | Family Life - Marriage & Divorce |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2003063245 |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 5.26" W x 8" (0.43 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Wives & Lovers is a collection of three short novels from the author whom the Boston Globe calls one of the most expert and substantial of our writers. Requisite Kindness -- published here for the first time -- tells the story of a man who must come to terms with a life of treating women badly when he goes to live with his sister and dying mother. Rare & Endangered Species demonstrates how a wife and mother's suicide reverberates in the small community where she lived, and affects the lives of people who don't even know her. Finally, Spirits is about the pain that men and women can -- and do -- inflict upon each other. These three very different works illuminate the unadorned core of love -- not the showy, more celebrated sort but what remains when lust, jealousy, and passion have been stripped away. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bausch, Richard: - 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. |