Wives & Lovers: Three Short Novels

"A first-rate collection of novellas that will break your heart and fill you with hope at the same time." --Denver Rocky Mountain News

In the tradition of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marquez comes Wives and Lovers, from the author 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 comes to terms with a life of treating women badly when he goes to live with his sister and dying mother. Rare and Endangered Species demonstrates how a wife and mother's suicide reverberates in the small community where she lives, 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. Three very different stories that illuminate the unadorned core of love--not the showy, more celebrated sort, but what remains when the more ephemeral emotions such as lust, jealousy, and passion have been stripped away.

Author: Richard Bausch
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 07/06/2004
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.26w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9780060571832

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2004 pg. 407
Publishers Weekly 05/24/2004 pg. 41
Library Journal 05/15/2004 pg. 117
Entertainment Weekly 07/16/2004 pg. 83
People Weekly 08/16/2004 pg. 52

About the Author
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.