Living in the Weather of the World: Stories
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Richard Bausch. (2017). Living in the Weather of the World: Stories. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Richard Bausch. 2017. Living in the Weather of the World: Stories. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Richard Bausch, Living in the Weather of the World: Stories. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2017.

Richard Bausch. Living in the Weather of the World: Stories. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2017.

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   • bioText: Richard Bausch is the author of twelve novels and eight previous volumes of short stories. He is a recipient of the REA Award For The Short Story, the PEN/Malamud Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Award, the Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and The Dayton Literary Peace Prize for his novel Peace. He is past Chancellor of The Fellowship of Southern Writers, and his work is widely anthologized, including in Pushcart Prize Stories, The O. Henry Awards, Best American Short Stories, and New Stories from the South. He is on the Writing Faculty of Chapman University in Orange, California.
      
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In stories by turns suspenseful, comic, subtle, and profound, Richard Bausch probes the fault lines of daily life. At three in the morning a man tries not to wake his sleeping wife while fielding calls from his suicidal mistress. A successful real estate agent with two grown sons tries an online dating service on a whim and is surprised by the complicated result. And after being held up at gunpoint, a police officer commiserates with his assailant about their unhappy marriages. Wherever he casts his gaze, Bausch illuminates shades of human experience that defy understanding.

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   • source: Houston Chronicle
   • content: "Every word feels perfect. The stories here aren't just entertaining; they demonstrate just how exciting and resonant . . . short fiction can be."
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   • source: The Boston Globe
   • content: "Taut and dark, saturated with moments of longing and regret. . . . Bausch, a short-story master, writes beautiful sentences, and though his tales center around . . . moments of reckoning and despair, they pulse with something glowing and true."
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   • source: The New York Times Book Review
   • content: "[Living in the Weather of the World] puts the reader in mind of Flannery O'Connor's ability to open out a story into dangerous, unknown territory. . . . That Bausch can deliver . . . convincing humanity, no matter the initial angle of ascent, is a testament to his powers of technique and observation."
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   • source: The Buffalo News
   • content: "Surprising, diverting, and endearing. . . . Every one of these stories is a treasure. . . . [Bausch] is king of the genre in America."
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   • source: Publishers Weekly (starred review)
   • content: "Masterly. . . . This is a sublime collection."
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   • source: Kirkus Reviews
   • content: "The current collection of 14 stories from Bausch, considered one of our living masters of fiction, demonstrates the author's lightning-quick ability to develop complex, unique characters and situations. . . . The weather in Bausch's world is never better than overcast, but his craftsmanship lights up something fine in the gloom."
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     Starred review from March 6, 2017
     In this masterly collection of short fiction, ordinary circumstances often become consequential turning points. The book’s apt title is not that of any individual story, but a description of the terrain Bausch’s characters inhabit. A first meeting is the focus of both “The Bridge to China” and “Map Reading,” the former a midlife blind date and the latter a first meeting between unlikely half-siblings of different generations. In “Walking Distance,” a young husband hurtles into a dangerous encounter after a fight with his wife. This plot has high potential for melodrama or the trite conventions of genre fiction, but Bausch writes with such authority and transparency that the story offers surprising insight and feels entirely believable. It’s a diverse collection: a couple of the 14 stories are short enough to be deemed flash fiction, and two long stories have the depth and scope of novels. “The Lineaments of Gratified Desire” tracks the small but significant developments in a complex romantic relationship. “Still Here, Still There” stretches over 70 years in the lives of two World War II veterans and their relationship. This is a sublime collection.

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     February 1, 2017
     Interesting people in various painful predicaments find ways to muddle through.The current collection of 14 stories from Bausch (Before, During, After, 2014, etc.), considered one of our living masters of fiction, demonstrates the author's lightning-quick ability to develop complex, unique characters and situations, and the title tells a lot about its throughline. The "weather of the world" refers to the aspects of life that are out of our control, and the stories examine how we choose to make our peace with them--a theme made explicit in a story called "Map Reading," about two gay siblings who, through circumstance and inertia, have been of no help to one another in their travails. The brother "had always been inclined to gloomy reflections. Friends remarked on it. With several of them he had formed a casual club that never met, called the Doom Brothers Club." When his younger half sister wonders whether everyone in the world isn't "living in sin," he observes, "Everyone's living in whatever weather there is where they are." This story, like many in the collection, finishes on a note of lingering sadness, and several stories deal with male protagonists making big mistakes in romance. The cop in the first one, "Walking Distance," pays the price for an excess of uxoriousness, while the painter in "The Lineaments of Gratified Desire" becomes distracted from the treasure he already has by one sparkling beyond his reach. The confessed adulterer in "We Belong Together" has an unpleasant surprise in store, and the newlywed in "The Hotel Macabre" makes the error of allowing his odious sister to join him and his bride on their honeymoon. In one of the few stories from a female point of view, "Night," the male partner is a violent abuser; other stories examine damaged men from a closer perspective, particularly "Veterans Night," about young men who have served in Iraq, and "Still Here, Still There," about a near-centenarian pair from World War II. The weather in Bausch's world is never better than overcast, but his craftsmanship lights up something fine in the gloom.

     COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     March 15, 2017
     Bausch is well versed in the wildly divergent weather of our psyches. The author of a dozen novels, including Before, During, After (2014), he presents his latest reports on the climate of emotions in his ninth book of short stories, a galvanizing collection charting the chill and heat, storms and droughts of marriage and family life. When a long-divorced real-estate agent finally tries online dating, the man she meets for dinner can't stop crying about his dead wife. A cheating husband dies in the act. After her rude and miserable sister-in-law destroys her honeymoon, a woman finds grim amusement in a sign that from a certain angle reads, Hotel Macabre. A man caught in the rain on his way to what will be a surprisingly revealing encounter with his nearly unknown half-sister thinks, this was life in the world: getting yourself drenched even with an umbrella. With extraordinary gifts for quickly establishing intricately complex and affecting personalities, creating authentically spiky and sputtering dialogue, and tracking the bruising collisions of volatile and failing relationships, Bausch is a profoundly clarifying meteorologist of the soul.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)

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      November 1, 2016
      

      PEN/Malamud Award winner Bausch has been called a master of the short story by the New York Times Book Review. These 13 pieces plumb the uncertainty of love, the depths of the soul, and the distances that can separate us. With a four-city tour.

      Copyright 2016 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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      Starred review from April 15, 2017
      

      This superb collection of short fiction by Bausch (Peace; Something Is Out There) offers readers a disturbing portrait of contemporary America--tragically compromised, listless, and at war with itself. Most of the main characters in these stories drift helplessly into and out of disastrous personal and romantic relationships, and much of the action is driven by lies, boredom, and petty self-interest. Lethal violence blossoms early one morning on the streets outside a bar in "Veterans." A husband abandons his loving wife for a torrid affair with a young woman who is married to a wealthy 80-year-old man in "The Lineaments of Gratified Desire." In "We Belong Together," a philandering husband loses both his wife and his lover in a matter of minutes. There is psychological and physical violence in many of the stories, as well as profound loneliness and disillusionment. VERDICT Plumbing a nation that has lost its sense of purpose and direction, these stories chart the emotional and psychological damage that is produced by experiences under these conditions. Enthusiastically recommended for fans of literary fiction. [See Prepub Alert, 10/10/16.]--Patrick Sullivan, Manchester Community Coll., CT

      Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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      April 15, 2017
      

      This superb collection of short fiction by Bausch (Peace; Something Is Out There) offers readers a disturbing portrait of contemporary America--tragically compromised, listless, and at war with itself. Most of the main characters in these stories drift helplessly into and out of disastrous personal and romantic relationships, and much of the action is driven by lies, boredom, and petty self-interest. Lethal violence blossoms early one morning on the streets outside a bar in "Veterans." A husband abandons his loving wife for a torrid affair with a young woman who is married to a wealthy 80-year-old man in "The Lineaments of Gratified Desire." In "We Belong Together," a philandering husband loses both his wife and his lover in a matter of minutes. There is psychological and physical violence in many of the stories, as well as profound loneliness and disillusionment. VERDICT Plumbing a nation that has lost its sense of purpose and direction, these stories chart the emotional and psychological damage that is produced by experiences under these conditions. Enthusiastically recommended for fans of literary fiction. [See Prepub Alert, 10/10/16.]--Patrick Sullivan, Manchester Community Coll., CT

      Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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