Characters with happiness just beyond reach
Bad luck. Disappointment. Infidelity. Ennui. They’re the stuff of which Richard Bausch’s stories are made: quiet domestic miseries, mishaps, and miscalculations that clang louder and louder in his characters’ ears; ordinary men and women suddenly steered along a path very different from the one they intended to take. “Oh how did people do it?” a weeping young woman ponders in ... (Full article: 892 words)
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