2 books by Richard Bausch
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Overview: RICHARD BAUSCH has received numerous awards and commendations, including the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writer’s Award and the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Esquire, Best American Short Stories, and many other publications. He lives with his wife, Karen, and their five children in Virginia.
Genre: General Fiction, Literature
Thanksgiving Night
Oliver Ward and his divorced daughter, a young policewoman named Alison, and Oliver’s two grandchildren become involved with Holly Grey and Holly’s aunt Fiona, elderly ladies with a marked propensity for outlandish behavior. Holly’s son, Will Butterfield, and Elizabeth, Will’s second wife by that name, have been happily married for ten years but are about to discover how fragile happiness is.
And in the middle of all of them is an old priest, Father John Fire, who is a good man, thinking of leaving the priesthood. He is called "Brother Fire" by everyone who knows him, after the famous words of Saint Francis when confronted with the burning brand with which he would be martyred. Close to both Holly and Fiona, Brother Fire also has a part to play in the rapidly unfolding family drama.
Hello to the Cannibals
And so ended, in 1900, the short but remarkable life of explorer and writer Mary Henrietta Kingsley, most of which was spent caring for her ailing mother, and attending to the business of her world-wandering father. But the moment she was unencumbered, she set out on her own journey of discovery. Blithely ignoring the narrowly circumscribed roles and rules for a young woman of her day, she traveled alone to West Africa, and went to places no European had ever been.
It is almost a hundred years later, on her fourteenth birthday, that Lily Austin first hears the name of Mary Kingsley, the only female face in a book full of male adventurers. That night, as an ice storm rages outside, something awful and unexpected befalls Lily; and this is why, as she matures into a young woman, it is to the writings of Kingsley that she returns again and again for solace and comfort — which she finds, especially, in a secret cache of intimate letters Kingsley wrote to an unnamed woman in the distant future. Lily, the child of professional actors, begins to write a play about Kingsley.
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