Harmony of the World - Stories (Paperback, 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed)

In these ten stories, Charles Baxter shows his genius in making his characters' everyday sufferings--and occasional fragile joys--seem utterly unprecedented, even as he reminds us, gently and with a sly comic twist, that everything they feel is only the collateral damage of being human. Whether he is writing about the players in a rickety bisexual love triangle or a woman visiting her husband in a nursing home, probing the psychic mainspring of a grimly obsessive weight lifter or sifting through the layers of resentment, need, and pity in a friendship that has gone on a few decades too long, Baxter enchants us with the elegant balance of his prose and the unexpectedness of his insights. Long admired and now once more available in paperback, Harmony of the World is a masterpiece of lucidity and compassion.

General

Imprint:	Vintage Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Vintage Contemporaries
Release date:	March 1997
First published:	March 1997
Authors:	Charles Baxter
Dimensions:	201 x 132 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	160
Edition:	1st Vintage Contemporaries ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-679-77651-2
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories Promotions
LSN:	0-679-77651-6
Barcode:	9780679776512

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