The selected stories of Richard Bausch

the long version

This Modern Library edition presents ten acclaimed stories that perfectly showcase Bausch's incisive wit, perception, and artistry. In "Aren't You Happy for Me?" a young woman tries to explain to her outraged father why she is marrying a college professor who is old enough to be her grandfather. In "Police Dreams" a devoted husband is unaware that his wife is about to leave him, yet he is tormented by a recurring nightmare in which their family is stalked by killers. And in the O. Henry Award-winning "What Feels Like the World," Bausch renders a portrait of human bonding that seems somehow an antidote to the losses endured by his other characters.