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The Fate of Others: Stories

The Fate of Others: Stories

Bausch, Richard

Hardcover

HumorGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $29.00

ISBN10: 0593801458
ISBN13: 9780593801451
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: May 20 2025
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.50 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
A new collection of short stories examining the extraordinary shades of ordinary life, from the prize-winning fiction writer Richard Bausch (A master of the short story --The New York Times Book Review)

In these twelve new stories, Richard Bausch explores the passions of men and women facing unex­pected circumstances and the complications of modern life and love. In the novella Donnaiolo, for instance, the parents of a young divorcée who has returned from Italy and a failed marriage must deal with the completely different, and unappealing, person she has become. In Isolation, a happily married woman who has con­ceived an unexpected passion for another man learns, in lockdown during the pandemic, that this man--into whose life Bausch also gives us a window--has become ill with Covid. In a second novella, Broken House, an elderly Catholic man recalls his part in the destruction of an old farmhouse by altar boys who believed a monk had given them permission to destroy it--while also portraying his lifelong fascination with one of the boys, a gifted artist who has carried a secret for decades about the church they both wanted to serve as priests. And in still another story, The Widow's Tale, a woman whose recently killed husband repeatedly visits her younger sister in dreams attends a séance.

Throughout The Fate of Others, Bausch once again exposes the virtues and flaws of his characters, remind­ing us, as the best stories do, of ourselves and people we know, and the lives we lead.

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