The Stories of Richard Bausch

Richard Bausch is the recipient of the seventeenth annual 2004 PEN/Malamud Award, which recognizes a body of work which demonstrates excellence in the art of short fiction. The Short Stories of Richard Bausch is an indispensable introduction to a writer who has consistently surprised, startled, and delighted readers for a quarter century. By turns tender, raw, heartbreaking, and riotously funny, the many voices of this definitive 42-story collection (seven of which are published here for the first time) attest to Bausch's remarkable range and versatility, and affirm his station as "a master of the short story" (New York Times) alongside such masters as John Cheever, Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, and Grace Paley.