Believers (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Charles Baxter
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Short stories and a novella
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Parents and children, Traveling or travelers, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Murder or homicide, Europe or Europeans, Middle classes, Education or educators, Marriage, Religion, Abandoned children, Midwest, Doctors, Paris, Violence, Seventeenth century, Revenge, Faith, Medicine, Sixteenth century, Nazism or Nazis, AIDS, Germany or German people, Switzerland or Swiss people, Plague
To function in this world, people must believe in something. Believing gives people strength, their life purpose, their relationships harmony. Yet how does someone know what secrets exist in the heart of that person to whom they have given their affections, their trust? How can anyone know all that can be known about another person? In Charles Baxter’s collection of stories the answers to these questions are seldom answered; individuals make sense out of their lives and their relationships by believing or by not believing. Love between people is based upon believing each other’s...
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