The Fireman's Wife and Other Stories

“To read the fiction of Richard Bausch is to be hugely moved, to be in touch with the depths of experience, to be present at the creation of a monument to human worth.” —Newsday Richard Bausch gets deep inside of people's lives. Richard Bausch gets deep inside of people's lives. He speaks eloquently for and to all of us about the intricacies of relationships—their fragility and their inherent possibility for explosion. His work has been published in The New Yorker, Esquire, and the Atlantic...