Wives & Lovers Three Short Novels
Wives & Lovers Three Short Novels by Richard Bausch is a collection published by HarperCollins on July 6, 2004, featuring 240 pages in English. This edition presents three short novels that explore the complexities of relationships and the often painful realities of love. The stories delve into themes of personal reflection, loss, and the impact of emotional struggles on individuals and their communities.
Readers will find that each narrative offers a distinct perspective on love and its challenges. “Requisite Kindness” introduces a man confronting his past behavior towards women while caring for his sister and dying mother. “Rare & Endangered Species” examines the aftermath of a wife’s suicide and its effects on a small community, while “Spirits” addresses the emotional wounds that men and women inflict upon one another. Together, these works provide a nuanced look at the essence of love, stripped of its more glamorous portrayals.
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Wives & Lovers is a collection of three short novels from the author whom the Boston Globe calls “one of the most expert and substantial of our writers.”
Requisite Kindness — published here for the first time — tells the story of a man who must come to terms with a life of treating women badly when he goes to live with his sister and dying mother. Rare & Endangered Species demonstrates how a wife and mother’s suicide reverberates in the small community where she lived, and affects the lives of people who don’t even know her. Finally, Spirits is about the pain that men and women can — and do — inflict upon each other. These three very different works illuminate the unadorned core of love — not the showy, more celebrated sort but what remains when lust, jealousy, and passion have been stripped away.
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