Robert Bausch, Author . Harcourt $25 (512p) ISBN 978-0-15-100172-9
A small Virginia mountain community in the late 1950s is the setting for this vivid and heartrending tale of dreadful accidents, fear, guilt, heroism and redemption by the author of A Hole in the Earth
At its center is a couple, John and Penny Bone,
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Robert Bausch, Author . Harcourt $24 (367p) ISBN 978-0-15-101014-1
There's lots of quiet mourning in Bausch's elegiac novel set in Columbia Beach, Md., a tourist town that's seen better days. County sheriff David Caldwell is in town on a professional mission—to open up the disused jail—and a
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Robert Bausch, Author Gibbs Smith Publishers $19.95 (159p) ISBN 978-0-87905-721-3
Bausch's strong, beautiful, moving stories, 10 of which appear in this collection, are testaments to the human capacity to feel and connect in an emotionally alienating world. In ``Stag Party,'' a grief-stricken 23-year-old mathematician,...
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Robert Bausch, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $24 (368p) ISBN 978-0-15-100529-1
If one of the purposes of literature is to illuminate human inconsistencies and frailties, failed attempts to communicate, and redemptive possibilities, this richly rewarding new novel by the author of Almighty Me wins stars in each category. On the
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Robert Bausch, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $19.95 (263p) ISBN 978-0-395-56266-6
In a divine conceit, Bausch's hero, Goodman Charles Wiggins, a Dodge salesman in southern Illinois, learns from an angel named Chet that for one year he will have God's powers. How Charlie deals with this gift and if, indeed, it's enough to bring...
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Robert Bausch. Bloomsbury, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-62040-259-7
As expansive as the country it traverses, Bausch’s majestic odyssey through the Old West finds rich nuance in a history often oversimplified. After the Civil War, hardscrabble veteran Bobby Hale heads toward California only to find that rampant...
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Robert Bausch. Bloomsbury, $26 (400p) ISBN 978-1-63286-397-3
When the Washington Redskins name Jesse Smoke their starting quarterback, they become the first NFL team to sign a woman. Skip Granger, the team’s longtime assistant coach, narrates this epic tale set in an unspecified future. Granger discovers...
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Robert Bausch. Bloomsbury, $30 (416p) ISBN 978-1-63286-400-0
Bausch tells the penetrating story of idealistic, newly graduated Ben Jameson, a hopeful young English teacher at Glenn Acres Preparatory School in Virginia. Enchanted by his own grandiose notions of inspiring young minds and changing young peoples’
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