Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness

The Nobel Prize–winning “master of the bizarre plunges the reader into a world of tortured imagination” in this four-novella collection ( Library Journal ).   In this startling quartet of his most provocative stories, the multiple prize-winning author of A Personal Matter reaffirms his reputation as “a supremely gifted writer” ( The Washington Post ).   In The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away , a self-absorbed narrator on his deathbed drifts off to the comforting strains of a ca