"I'm always crying and doing tragic pieces, and this is a very happy piece," she said.
Bauer won wide acclaim for her first novel, Blacklands; she can do tragic brilliantly and she can do grim, but every now and then humour breaks into the tale – and she does that almost best of all.
He turns small events into large examinations of the nature of human behaviour, whether kindness done, tragic loss or repairing wretched meanness, and often takes the reader to a place where a character can say "we couldn't do nothing for him but we did it anyway".
But what does his tragic flaw amount to beside the self-lacerating intellect of Brutus, who slaughters his beloved Caesar?
But, who doesn't have tragic story after tragic story about having sex to music?
And they did, with tragic and avoidable consequences".
Do these tragic events only affect individuals who are predisposed to heart disease or stroke anyway?
Did the tragic events originate in the shooting down of an Iranian airliner carrying pilgrims to Mecca by the USS Vincennes in 1988?
Who hasn't come on to you? (Who wasn't lovely long ago?) (Even Billy did; his tragic need, his blank blue eyes).
His skill with the edit machine helps maintain the dramatic rhythm - as do the tragic first-hand accounts of suffering from those who have experienced the terror.
