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Harmony of the World by Charles Baxter

Harmony of the World

Stories

By Charles Baxter

By Charles Baxter

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Mar 11, 1997 | ISBN 9780679776512

Harmony of the World by Charles Baxter
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Mar 11, 1997 | ISBN 9780679776512

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About Harmony of the World

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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About Charles Baxter

CHARLES BAXTER is the author of the novels The Feast of Love (nominated for the National Book Award), First Light, Saul and Patsy, Shadow Play, The Soul Thief, and The Sun Collective, and the story collections Believers, Gryphon, Harmony of… More about Charles Baxter

Product Details

Category: Literary Fiction

Paperback | $13.00
Published by Vintage
Mar 11, 1997 | 160 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679776512

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