Author Description

This Modern Library edition presents ten acclaimed stories that perfectly showcase Bausch's incisive wit, perception, and artistry. In "Aren't You Happy for Me?" a young woman tries to explain to her outraged father why she is marrying a college professor who is old enough to be her grandfather. In "Police Dreams" a devoted husband is unaware that his wife is about to leave him, yet he is tormented by a recurring nightmare in which their family is stalked by killers. And in the O. Henry Award-winning "What Feels Like the World," Bausch renders a portrait of human bonding that seems somehow an antidote to the losses endured by his other characters.