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From the prizewinning novelist and world-renowned short-story writer, the author of 2008’s universally acclaimed novel Peace (“A brilliant one-act drama depicting the futility and moral complexity of combat” —The New York Times), eleven indelible new tales that showcase the electrifying artistry of a master.
A husband confronts the power of youth and the inexorable truths of old age. A son sits by his mother’s bedside determined to give her what she needs in her final days, even though doing so means breaking his own heart. A brief adulterous tryst illuminates the fragility of our most intimate relations. A young man returns in the face of crisis to the parents he once rejected. A divorced young woman dealing with slowly increasing despair develops an obsesion about a note that fell from the pocket of a man who came to eat in the café where she works. A wife whose husband has been shot must weather a terrible snowstorm with her two sons, as well as a storm of doubt about the extent of his involvement in a crime.
Richard Bausch’s stories contend with transfixing themes: marital and familial estrangement, ways of trespass, the intractable mysteries and frights of daily life in these times, the uncertainty of knowledge and truth, the gulfs between friends and lovers, the frailty of even the most abiding love—while underlining throughout the persistence of love, the obdurate forces that connect us. His consummate skill, penetrating wit, and unfailing emotional generosity are on glorious display in this fine new collection.
From the Hardcover edition.
- Sales Rank: #1442653 in eBooks
- Published on: 2010-02-04
- Released on: 2010-02-09
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Publishers Weekly
Fissures of familial and amorous transgressions erupt in the seemingly placid lives of everyday people in Bausch's eighth collection (after novel, Peace), where power outages, raging snow storms and the sweeping Mississippi River form a backdrop seething with looming menace for unhappy marriages and drowning dreams. In subtle but firm prose, Bausch allows his characters to stumble along a harrowing path that they hope will lead them to be, as the protagonist of Blood proclaims, Free at last. But freedom is elusive for many characters, including the two women and two children of the title story who hide out in a house during a storm. Elsewhere, sacred ground—be it the bed of a minister and his wife, a friend's marriage or a confessional booth—forms the stage for the pursuit of pleasure, healing and escape. Throughout, Bausch takes the chaotic fallout from simple acts—delaying a friend's husband so she can plan a surprise party, killing time on an errand, sleeping in and nearly missing an appointment—to show how dangerously close we may be to encountering a predatory world eager to destroy our comforts, relationships and beliefs. (Feb.)
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From Booklist
Bausch, an exceptional and prodigious fiction writer whose many accolades include the PEN/Malamud Award for short fiction, follows his unforgettable war novel, Peace (2008), with a subtly powerful collection of new short stories, many about the unfathomable currents and riptides of matrimony. Marriages flounder before they’ve barely begun, as in “Immigration,” a taut tale of intensifying emotional confusion, and in the sweetly stressed “The Harp Department of Love,” a portrait of the tentative marriage between an emeritus music professor and his best former student. A capsizing marriage is the catalyst for friction among three brothers one hot summer in “Blood.” The hair-raising title story takes place during a blizzard in Virginia, as a woman who wants to leave her husband realizes that he has placed their family in danger. In the beautifully structured and complexly affecting “Byron the Lyron,” a gay man mourns the end of a 12-year relationship and worries about his ailing mother. Endlessly imaginative and empathic, Bausch continues the great American tradition of virtuosic short stories planted in the ordinary and catapulting into the inexplicable. --Donna Seaman
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“Bausch’s stories are actually breathtaking in their poignancy.” —Walker Percy
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
Stunning Short Stories
By Fairbanks Reader - Bonnie Brody
Richard Bausch has written a stunning collection of eleven short stories, all strong and memorable. The stories tackle the themes of the frailty of love and relationships, fears, losses, betrayals. His characters often want to leave the present for something new and unknown. "I wish it was tomorrow" is a quote from one of the stories but is applicable to most of them. During the course of his stories, the characters become different people than they were initially. Often, they have reached a point of no return when the story begins or they find themselves at this point when the story ends. There are omens of things bad and frightening waiting in the ordinariness of daily life. There are also omens of momentous positive changes to come.
'The Harp Department of Love' is about the marriage of two musicians. Josephine is a young wife thirty years her husband's junior. She has had a loose upbringing and has a gift with music. He has been brought up safely, and creating music is difficult for him. Perhaps through Josephine's lackadaisical attitude or her desire for admiration, she allows a friendship with a young man to go a bit too far. He becomes obsessed with her and confronts her husband, telling him that Josephine loves him. Her husband moves out and in his world of pain he realizes that he is becoming old and can't compete with youth. When her husband comes over to visit her, Josephine thinks, "He seems old. For the first time in her life with him, she sees his age as a separate thing, a fact about him, like something that might be explained to her".
In 'Reverend Thornbill's Wife'. a reverend's wife has a one-time sexual liaison with a man she met on an internet site for "people mutually looking for extramarital excitement without commitment". For one day, ordinary life becomes filled with passion and mystery. "Except that there was also a kind of macabre sense that she had opened a little crevice in a fortification on the other side of which something awful awaited - there did seem to be an element of morbidness about all this." When her husband comes home, she looks at him differently and sees him as more limited and sexually repressed. This is her future.
'Son and Heir' is about a boy who grows up in a home with a lot of hypocrisy. To the outside world, his parents appear happy. However, they are miserable with each other and often go for weeks without talking. They even have the boy pass notes between them. As the boy matures, he is a disappointment to his parents. He drifts through life "in defiance of their expectations - his parents' ambitions for him - and of the falsity he had grown up with". When he turns 27 years old, his father gives him $500 and stops supporting him. He is told to come home when he is a man, not still a boy. A traumatic event occurs and the young man, who has not had anything to do with his parents for a few years, returns home while they are out of town. He goes to his bedroom and hides underneath his bed, both a scared little boy and a man who realizes that he is lost.
In 'Trophy', we meet Jimmy. Jimmy owns a car dealership and is facing a round of bad luck. This isn't much different from the rest of his life as he's experiened sorrows, losses and defeats. The people who work for him view him as a mentor. One of them stages a situation on a golf course that makes Jimmy think he's attained something he hasn't. This leads him to believe he's in for a round of good luck. He does find success but he still carries the weight of the world in his face.
In 'Something is Out There', a woman begins an ordinary day "wholeheartedly believing in goodwill, contracts, commitments, friendship, helpfulness". During the day, her husband is shot by an irate ex-business partner. Later on, she and her sons are caught up in a snowstorm and all the power goes off in their house. She begins to think that her husband, who she is intending to leave, may be involved in some sort of crime. She senses something frightening and scary in the air. "She stood for a moment in the chilly doom of the basement and had the thought that this day's badness was the beginning of something more, and unfolding. She didn't even know what it would be about; she wasn't even sure it was coming. But her blood told her it was, and she had to be ready for it, whatever it might be."
In 'Overcast', a young woman, recently divorced and rather aimless, sees her life as overcast. She attempts to keep up a positive attitude and a good front. In reality, she's stuck in her past as she ponders her future, floundering in the present. One day a man comes into the diner where she is a waitress. "She saw him, and abruptly had an unbidden strong sense that this morning would be important, that something momentous would take place". The man drops a leaflet with some enigmatic writing on it and she can't get it out of her mind. She finds herself wanting this man to reappear in her life again. He and the leaflet represent "where she might go, who she might come to be with, what she might find to an do or be, and whether or not she would be happy there, so far away, in the magical distance, the future, that was taking so long to arrive".
My favorite story in the collection is 'One Hour in the History of Love'. At different tables in a restaurant sit separate couples, each dealing with the nuances of love and their own relationships - disappointments, joys, expectations, angers. Across the street, an elderly couple grapples with their disappointments about their grown children. Bausch segues beautifully between the different couples and conversations. He examines the universal elements of intimacy by having the strangers' conversations briefly intersect for the reader.
In 'Sixty-five Million Years', Hennessey is a priest who is in the midst of a spiritual burn-out. He finds that "his hours in the booth were an almost unbearable ordeal now". He has trouble sleeping. One day, a 15 year-old boy with comes to confession. He is precocious and filled with doubt. He asks Father Hennessey about the 65 million years when the dinosaurs roamed the earth and why did God let that happen. All Father Hennessey can tell the boy is to have faith. The boy returns and Father Hennessey desperately tries to connect with him. There is something about this boy that affects him in a way that nothing has for a long time. However, Father Hennessey feels like he has failed the boy. All he can do is tell him to have faith. The boy returns and says "I'm worried about all the places in the universe where there's nothing going on, and nothing but silence". The boy talks about the faulty nature of God and of God being just like people. As much as Father Hennessey tries to communicate the importance of faith and combat the boy's doubts, he feels like he just can't reach this young man. Father Hennessey becomes obsessed with him, wanting to know who he is, where he lives, what his life's like. Where once he dreaded the boredom of confessional, he now yearns for it, hoping the boy will return. Father Hennessey feels like "something is intolerably wrong" with his life despite the orderliness of it. He wonders if this boy is an "angel who has been sent to goad him out of his apathy". Speaking to this boy gives him "a sense of having come face-to-face with a living sanctity".
There is a brooding darkness in all the stories, a sense of something about to go wrong or something bad waiting just around the corner. People are betrayed, their impulses lead them to do things outside their range of self-perception, they become obsessed. Intimacy is fragile, easily broken and difficult to repair. No one ends up happy. There is no such outcome in a Richard Bausch short story. The reader ends up feeling enriched, privy to the private lives of complex and rich individuals, and to the dark side of the soul that is not easily described. Richard Bausch is a master craftsman and a wonderful story teller.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Ranks with the Best
By Cary B. Barad
This past year or so has seen a prolific number of really worthwhile short story collections, and this one ranks among the best. Very interesting characterizations and creative twists that generate an enjoyable blend of good literature and old fashioned excitement. You won't be dissapointed in this fine work.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
"Indeed, it is!"
By R. Russell Bittner
I couldn't help it. As I read the short stories in Richard Bausch's collection SOMETHING IS OUT THERE., I kept seeing the paintings of various artists -- Edward Hopper; Edvard Munch; Francisco José de Goya; even, at times, Hieronymus Bosch. If I may be permitted to suggest a kind of "reverse ekphrasis" -- a term, so far as I know, normally reserved for poetry -- this is what I felt while reading Baush's work. The faces (and the characters these physiognomies represented) of despair, loneliness and isolation -- and all of them struggling to break out of their personal solitary confinement. Or worse still, out of their private oubliettes.
The following sentence at the conclusion of "Overcast" would seem to sum it all up: "She thought of those nights she lay wide awake in the dark trying to dream up her life out in the world, wondering and worrying about where she might go, who she might come to be with, what she might find to do or be, and whether or not she might be happy there, so far away, in the magical distance, the future that was taking so long to arrive."
These are not action stories. In many instances, the plot is no thicker than a pie crust. Instead, most of the "action" takes place inside the characters' heads.
But that's fine. If the fictional landscapes these characters traverse are no wider than the space between their ears, they live, die and fight in that space -- and both the horror and the sadness of their acts and thoughts are ours to consider. It is as if, in the depiction of his characters and their personal travails, Bausch is holding up a mirror and allowing us to look at ourselves.
And no, they -- and we -- are not pretty to behold.
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