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Harmony of the World

by Charles Baxter

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Awards

Winner of the Associated Writers Program Award for Short Fiction

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Synopses & Reviews

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In one of the ten unblinkingly truthful stories that make up Harmony of the World, an elderly Polish piano teacher scolds a morose pupil, "Pain always seems new when you have it." It is Charles Baxter's genius to make 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.

Review:

"Marvelously inventive, carefully wrought, these are compelling stories with incisive moments." St. Petersburg Times

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"A remarkable storyteller....His narratives can be as plausible as they are utterly amazing." The Nation

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"Mr. Baxter's stories are intelligent, original, gracefully written, always moving, frequently funny and — that rarest of compliments — wise." The New York Times Book Review

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About the Author

Charles Baxter is the author of two novels, First Light and Shadow Play, and three other collections of stories, Through the Safety Net, A Relative Stranger, and, most recently, a collection called Believers. He lives in Ann Arbor and teaches at the University of Michigan.

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Table of Contents

Gershwin's Second Prelude 1
Xavier Speaking 17
The Model 36
Horace and Margaret's Fifty-second 44
The Cliff 59
A Short Course in Nietzschean Ethics 63
The Would-be Father 79
Weights 95
Harmony of the World 111
The Crank 136

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780679776512

Author:

Baxter, Charles

Publisher:

Vintage Books USA

Location:

New York :

Subject:

Literary

Subject:

Fiction

Subject:

Short Stories (single author)

Subject:

Literature-A to Z

Copyright:

1994

Edition Number:

Reprint ed.

Edition Description:

Trade paper

Series:

Vintage Contemporaries

Series Volume:

1918

Publication Date:

March 1997

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Pages:

160

Dimensions:

8 x 5.2 x 0.35 in 0.4 lb

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Product details 160 pages Vintage Books USA - 2010-11-22 English 9780679776512 Reviews:

"Review" by St. Petersburg Times, "Marvelously inventive, carefully wrought, these are compelling stories with incisive moments."

"Review" by The Nation, "A remarkable storyteller....His narratives can be as plausible as they are utterly amazing."

"Review" by The New York Times Book Review, "Mr. Baxter's stories are intelligent, original, gracefully written, always moving, frequently funny and — that rarest of compliments — wise."