Good Evening Mr and Mrs America

The critics have been effusive in their praise for Richard Bausch''s Good Evening Mr. and Mrs. America and All the Ships at Sea .His hardover sales have also never been higher. Taking its title from Walter Winchell''s famous radio salutation, Good Evening Mr. and Mrs. America opens in Washington, DC, in 1964, just after the Kennedy assassination, telling the story of Walter Marshall, an idealistic 19-year-old who lives with his widowed mother and studies to be a journalist like his hero, Edward R. Murrow. In this coming-of-age novel in the truest sense of the phrase, young Marshall fumbles toward manhood in a nation that is itself in the midst of cataclysmic change. With the same elegance and precision that has distinguished his other novels, Richard Bausch has evoked a sense of time and place in a different America and brings the last 30 years of history profoundly and vividly to life.

About the author

Richard Bausch is the author of nine other novels and seven volumes of short stories. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Playboy, GQ, Harper's Magazine, and other publications, and has been featured in numerous best-of collections, including the O. Henry Awards' Best American Short Stories and New Stories from the South. In 2004 he won the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Bausch
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.09.1997
• EAN: 9780060928575
• ISBN: 978-0-06-092857-5
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 202 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: General, FICTION: Historical / General, FICTION: Romance / Historical / 20th Century, FICTION: Romance / Collections & Anthologies, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Asian / Japanese, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: European / Scandinavian