Catherine Bush, Author Serpent's Tail $12.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-85242-408-4
In this novel of contemporary familial disintegration, a 20something protagonist tries to deal with problems while her astronaut mother attempts to set the record for the longest time spent orbiting the Earth. (Sept.)
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Catherine Bush, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $24 (272p) ISBN 978-0-374-25280-9
Eloquent and thoughtful, Bush's second novel (after Minus Time) uses the twin motifs of war and intervention to explore the nature of trust, responsibility and personal risk. The protagonist, Arcadia Hearne, is a 31-year-old Canadian expatriate now...
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Catherine Bush, Author Hyperion Books $19.45 (341p) ISBN 978-1-56282-881-3
An extreme case of emotional--and literal--distance occupies Bush in this provocative, if at times overwrought debut. Set in the plausible present day, the story is alternately narrated by and descriptive of 20-year-old Toronto resident Helen Urie,...
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Catherine Bush. Goose Lane Editions (UTP, North American dist.), $32.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-86492-900-6
Bush (Claire's Head) centers her fourth novel on Raymond Renaud, whose Cirkus Mirak takes the abandoned children of Ethiopia and provides them with jobs capering skillfully for Westerners. When some of the performers beg for asylum, alleging...
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