Harmony of the World
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In these ten stories, Charles Baxter shows his genius in making his characters' everyday sufferingsand occasional fragile joysseem 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 throug…
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