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Harmony of the World

Harmony of the World

Baxter, Charles

Paperback

Series: Vintage Contemporaries

General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0679776516
ISBN13: 9780679776512
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Mar 11 1997
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story and one of our most gifted writers (Chicago Tribune)--these ten stories show make everyday experiences seem utterly unprecedented, even as Baxter 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. Harmony of the World is a masterpiece of lucidity and compassion.

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