Something Is Out There: Stories

✍ Scribed by Bausch, Richard

• Book ID: 108882781
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 217 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780307592880

✦ Synopsis

From the prizewinning novelist and world-renowned short-story writer, the author of 2008's universally acclaimed novel Peace ("A brilliant one-act drama depicting the futility and moral complexity of combat" --The New York Times), eleven indelible new tales that showcase the electrifying artistry of a master.

A husband confronts the power of youth and the inexorable truths of old age. A son sits by his mother's bedside determined to give her what she needs in her final days, even though doing so means breaking his own heart. A brief adulterous tryst illuminates the fragility of our most intimate relations. A young man returns in the face of crisis to the parents he once rejected. A divorced young woman dealing with slowly increasing despair develops an obsesion about a note that fell from the pocket of a man who came to eat in the café where she works. A wife whose husband has been shot must weather a terrible snowstorm with her two sons, as...