Circling the Drain
by Amanda Davis | 
Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys
by Will Self | 
To Cut a Long Story Short
by Jeffrey Archer | 
The Melancholy of Anatomy
by Shelley Jackson | 
Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance
by Matthew Kneale | 
Gates of Eden
by Ethan Coen | 
The Palace Thief
by Ethan Canin | 
Nice Big American Baby
by Judy Budnitz | 
You Think That's Bad
by Jim Shepard | 
All the days and nights
by William Maxwell | 
Rhoda
by Ellen Gilchrist | 
The Angel on the Roof
by Russell Banks | 
Sugar and Other Stories
by A. S. Byatt | 
Pack of Cards
by Penelope Lively | 
Collected Short Stories
by E. M. Forster | 
Something Is Out There
by Richard Bausch | 
The Toughest Indian in the World
by Sherman Alexie | 
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
by Stephen King | 
Birds of America
by Lorrie Moore | 
Strange Pilgrims
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
A 2004 PEN/Malamud Award winner, this collection celebrates the work of American artist Richard Bausch -- a writer the New York Times calls "a master of the short story." By turns tender, raw, heartbreaking, and riotously funny, the many voices of this definitive forty-two-story collection (seven of which appear here for the first time) defy expectation, attest to Bausch's remarkable range and versatility, and affirm his place alongside such acclaimed story writers as John Cheever, Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, and Grace Paley.