Rare and Endangered Species

by Richard Bausch

Book Overview

The winner of two National Magazine Awards for Fiction, Richard Bausch has been hailed for the incisive wit and perception in his stories. In this new collection, he delves into the rhythms of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679763104
• ISBN13: 9780679763109
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Vintage Books USA
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Bausch like Carver, only deeper

Sometimes I think Richard Bausch's stories are like Raymond Carver's if Carver only went deeper. Bausch's stories are so truthful that they are by nature depressing. He manages to take situations that might otherwise be contrived or just trite and manages to draw what is richer from them. Like the back cover of the book suggests with mention of a "daughter's announcement that she is marrying her sixty-three-year-old college professor," or a "heartsick children's clown," these stories have the potential of being merely novel, but Bausch somehow knows the truth of the situations and goes beyond what a novice writer might make of them to find what the reader might understand about life.

This is one of my favorite books...

Very disappointed to see it is out of print