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Violence

Violence( )
Author: Bausch, Richard
ISBN:978-0-517-17837-9
Publication Date:Jul 1997
Publisher:Random House Value Publishing
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $3.99
Book Description:

In this shattering novel, a man walks into a convenience store--which turns out to be precisely the wrong place at the wrong time. The near-death and seemingly arbitrary survival of Charles Connally are rendered with a realism, horror, and compassion that explore the strands of brutality running invisibly through his life, his wife's--and perhaps, that of the entire nation. Author reading tour. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Book Details
Detailed Subjects: Social Science / Violence In Society
Book Weight:0.538 Pounds
Author Biography
Bausch, Richard (Author)
Richard Bausch was born in Fort Benning, Georgia, in 1945. After serving in the U.S. Air Force as a survival instructor, he entered George Mason University, from which he received a B.A. in 1974. He then earned an M.F.A. degree from the University of Iowa and worked as a singer and comedian while writing fiction. He became a professor of English at George Mason University in 1980.

His work includes the novels Real Presence, I Don't Care If I Never Get Back, The Last Good Time, Mr. Field's Daughter, and Violence. He has also published two collections of short stories, Spirits and Other Stories and The Fireman's Wife and Other Stories. He was shortlisted for the 2015 Bad S-x in Fiction Award. for his title Before, During, After.

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