Books by Douglas Bauer and Complete Book Reviews
Douglas Bauer, Author Simon & Schuster $18.45 (317p) ISBN 978-0-671-64997-5
Combine the characters of Raymond Carver with the sensibilities of Henry James and the result might be Bauer's bleak, but vividly written first novel. Ed and Ramona King live in Myles, a grim mill town in upstate New York. They have a baby named...
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Douglas Bauer, Author William Morrow & Company $20 (378p) ISBN 978-0-688-09460-7
The first half of this Dickensian novel by the author of the highly praised Dexterity is so suspenseful, poignant and irresistibly entertaining that even when the pace slows toward the middle of the narrative, readers will remain engrossed in hopes...
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Douglas Bauer, Author, Doug Bauer, Author Henry Holt & Company $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8050-4300-6
Boredom--the boredom of a safe, predictable, stationary, domestic, churchgoing existence--is the foe with which the citizens of 1950s New Holland, Iowa, struggle. One of them, 10-year-old Will Vaughn, is watching his mother (once a nightclub singer...
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