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From Monsters and Critics.com Books News “Taut and propulsive—with its spare language, its punishing landscape, and the keenly drawn portraits of the three young soldiers at its center—Peace is a feat of economy, compression, and imagination, a brutal and unmistakably contemporary meditation on the corrosiveness of violence, the human cost of war, and the redemptive power of mercy,” the book description states. Peace is the title of the latest novel by Richard Bausch. A prize-winning novelist, the NYT notes, “His tense, economic prose chimes with the precise, laconic language of soldiers. The worst writing about war is either black-and-white or Technicolor. The best, like this, is in shades of gray, evoking the personal equivocations, the doubts, the discomfort and the sheer, crushing boredom and fatigue that constitute the real nature of war.” Knopf is the publisher of this slim novel, which finishes at 192 pages. The NYT not only provides a review but also a chapter excerpt which you can read here.
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