The Fireman's Wife and Other Stories (Norton Paperback Fiction)

“To read the fiction of Richard Bausch is to be hugely moved, to be in touch with the depths of experience, to be present at the creation of a monument to human worth.” —Newsday

Richard Bausch gets deep inside of people's lives. Richard Bausch gets deep inside of people's lives. He speaks eloquently for and to all of us about the intricacies of relationships—their fragility and their inherent possibility for explosion. His work has been published in The New Yorker, Esquire, and the Atlantic Monthly; two of the stories in this collection were chosen for Best American Short Stories.