{"title":"Richard Bausch","description":"This is Richard Bausch's eleventh novel. 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. He is chancellor of the Fellowship of Southern Writers and lives in Memphis, Tennessee, where he is Moss Chair of Excellence in the Writer's Workshop of the University of Memphis.","products":[{"product_id":"peace-paperback","title":"Peace - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis \"small masterpiece with the same emotional force and moral complexity as Conrad's \u003ci\u003eHeart of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e and Tolstoy's \u003ci\u003eHadji Murad\u003c\/i\u003e\" (Colm Tóibín) \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003einspired the film \u003ci\u003eRecon.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eItaly, near Cassino, in the terrible winter of 1944. An icy rain, continuing unabated for days. Guided by a seventy-year-old Italian man in rope-soled shoes, three American soldiers are sent on a reconnaissance mission up the side of a steep hill that they discover, before very long, to be a mountain. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs they climb, the old man's indeterminate loyalties only add to the terror and confusion that engulf them. \u003ci\u003ePeace \u003c\/i\u003eis a feat of storytelling from one of America's most acclaimed novelists: a powerful look at the corrosiveness of violence, the human cost of war, and the redemptive power of mercy.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102866542815,"sku":"9780307388582","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/FL2crpvzRR9780307388582.webp?v=1781087503"},{"product_id":"the-fate-of-others-stories-hardcover","title":"The Fate of Others: Stories - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThroughout \u003ci\u003eThe Fate of Others, \u003c\/i\u003eBausch 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.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103106699487,"sku":"9780593801451","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/D5GQXEOYCU9780593801451.webp?v=1781090301"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/richard-bausch.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}