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Near fine in very good dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed 'For Lisa, Thrive! ' by the author on the half-title page. 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Dust jacket has crinkling and small closed tear at the top of the rear panel. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 159 p. Audience: General/trade. Book as new except for mild wear to the cap and base of the spine. The Dictionary of Literary Biography Literary prize-winning short story collection by the By the Dos Passos Prize-winning author of 'A Hole in the Earth' and 'Far As the Eye Can See'. Uncommon signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
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Very good in Very good jacket. [8], 159, [1] pages. Ink notation on fep. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Chapters include Cougar; Family Lore; Stag Party; Vigilance; The One Thing in Life; Perfection; Wakefulnesss; The Perfect Prayer, The Hairpiece; and The White Rooster. Robert Bausch is a master. His vision of our times is unflinching without cruelty, compassionate without sentimentality. The White Rooster and Other Stories is altogether worthy of our best and closest attention. This incandescent and beautifully crafted collection of short stories redefines old landscapes in unexpected, yet increasingly all too-recognizable ways. The ten stories that make up The White Rooster and Other Stories have all the solid virtues that make a collection of stories truly matter; an indisputable authority of voice; strong, plausible situations and memorable characters, a variety of appropriate styles, each of them afire with love of our language. The utter loneness of characters facing change in The White Rooster and Other Stories is almost palpable. They face the crumbling of the pedestal the white male stood upon for years, the changing relationships between men and women, the increasing tension between neighbors as respect erodes, and the general flux of modern-day living. Alone the characters begin to look at themselves and their motivations in a whole new light, and their revelations re achingly real. In 1995, Bausch published a collection of short stories called The White Rooster and Other Stories. The Dictionary of Literary Biography awarded the book its literary prize for the most distinguished fiction for 1995. Robert Bausch (April 18, 1945-October 9, 2018) was an American fiction writer, the author of nine novels and one collection of short stories. He was a Professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College, and he had taught at the University of Virginia, The American University, Johns Hopkins University, George Mason University, and the University of Maryland. His fourth novel, A Hole in the Earth, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Washington Post Favorite Book of the Year. He was awarded the Fellowship of Southern Writers' award for fiction for his fifth novel, The Gypsy Man. In 2005 Harcourt published his sixth novel, Out of Season, which was a Washington Post favorite book of the year. His novel Far as the Eye Can See was released by Bloomsbury Press in fall 2014, and in August 2016, Bloomsbury published his last novel, The Legend of Jesse Smoke. In 2009, he was awarded the Dos Passos Prize in Literature. Bausch published his first novel, On the Way Home, in 1982. Newsweek called the novel "compelling" and it was favorably reviewed in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and other publications. His second novel, The Lives of Riley Chance, was published in 1984 and was praised by the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. It was later translated into Swedish. Almighty Me, his third novel, was published in 1991. Again the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other newspapers praised it highly. The rights to the book were sold to Hollywood Films, a division of Disney Studios. This book was later released in film version, uncredited, as Bruce Almighty. Derived from a Publishers Weekly article: Bausch's strong, beautiful, moving stories, 10 of which appear in this collection, are testaments to the human capacity to feel and connect in an emotionally alienating world. In ``Stag Party, '' a grief-stricken 23-year-old mathematician, floundering after his mother's death, clumsily attempts to rescue a terrified, naked stripper who is assaulted by beer-soaked veterans at a stag party. In ``The Hairpiece, '' spiked with wry and bizarre, yet touching, humor, a widow reaches out to the surly stepson who despises her--by giving him her deceased husband's toupee, woven of his own hair. Humans' relationships with animals are central to several tales, including the...