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Richard Bausch is the author of seven previous volumes of short stories and eleven novels. He is the recipient of an award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction, and, for his novel Peace, the American Library Association’s W. Y. Boyd Prize for Excellence in Military Fiction and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. A past chancellor of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, he lives in Memphis, Tennessee, where he holds the Moss Chair of Excellence in the Writers Workshop of the University of...

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Peace

Written by Richard Bausch

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $15.00

Italy, 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... Read more >

Peace

Written by Richard Bausch

Format: eBook, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 15, 2008
Price: $11.99

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The Selected Stories of Richard Bausch

Written by Richard Bausch

Format: eBook, 240 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: June 20, 2012
Price: $11.99

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The Selected Stories of Richard Bausch

Written by Richard Bausch

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: April 23, 1996
Price: $15.00

Richard Bausch is a master of the short story—and this selection brings together ten pieces which perfectly showcase his incisive wit, perception, and artistry. "He brings to life characters and situations as vivid and compelling as any in contemporary literature."—Michael Dorris, The Washington Post Book World. Read more >

Something Is Out There
Stories
Written by Richard Bausch

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Price: $15.00

Winner of the 2012 Rea Award for the Short Story

In these eleven unforgettable stories, Richard Bausch plumbs the depths of familial and marital estrangement, the gulfs between friends and lovers, the fragility and impermanence of love—and manages to find something quite surprising: human hope.

Bausch’s assured style, signature grace, and penetrating wit... Read more >

Something Is Out There

Written by Richard Bausch

Format: eBook, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 9, 2010
Price: $11.99

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