{"product_id":"harmony-of-the-world-isbn-9780679776512","title":"Harmony of the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the winner of the PEN\/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story and “one of our most gifted writers” (\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e)—these ten stories show make everyday experiences seem utterly unprecedented, even as Baxter reminds us, gently and with a sly comic twist, that everything they feel is only the collateral damage of being human.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhether 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. \u003ci\u003eHarmony of the World\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterpiece of lucidity and compassion.\u003cp\u003eCharles Baxter is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Feast of Love\u003c\/i\u003e (nominated for the National Book Award), \u003ci\u003eThe Soul Thief, Saul and Patsy, Shadow Play,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFirst Light,\u003c\/i\u003e and the story collections \u003ci\u003eGryphon,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBelievers, A Relative Stranger, Through the Safety Net,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHarmony of the World\u003c\/i\u003e.  The stories “Bravery” and “Charity,” which appear in \u003ci\u003eThere’s Something I Want You to Do,\u003c\/i\u003e were included in \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories.\u003c\/i\u003e He has won the PEN\/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. Baxter lives in Minneapolis and teaches at the University of Minnesota and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.\u003c\/p\u003eAuthor of The Feast of Love","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301091037413,"sku":"NP9780679776512","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679776512.jpg?v=1767728734","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/harmony-of-the-world-isbn-9780679776512","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}