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Harmony of the World

By Charles Baxter

Harmony of the World

By Charles Baxter

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In these ten stories, Charles Baxter shows his genius in making his characters' everyday sufferings--and occasional fragile joys--seem utterly unprecedented, even as he reminds us, gently and with a sly comic twist, that everything they feel is only the collateral damage of being human. Whether he is writing about the players in a rickety bisexual love triangle or a woman visiting her husband in a nursing home, probing the psychic mainspring of a grimly obsessive weight lifter or sifting through the layers of resentment, need, and pity in a friendship that has gone on a few decades too long, Baxter enchants us with the elegant balance of his prose and the unexpectedness of his insights. Long admired and now once more available in paperback, Harmony of the World is a masterpiece of lucidity and compassion.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
160
Release Date:
1997-03-11
Publication Date:
1997-03-11
Publisher:
Knopf
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0679776516
ISBN13:
9780679776512
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
208 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
10 cm
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