Federick Busch, Author, Frederick Busch, Author Harmony $23 (279p) ISBN 978-0-517-70455-4
Busch (Closing Arguments; The Children in the Woods) deserves greater success than he has so far received-though connoisseurs of clean, dynamic American prose already know and admire his work. His latest novel is a tour de force in which the setting,
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Frederick Busch, Author . New Directions $12.95 (114p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1476-6
Though smaller in scope (and physical size) than Busch's last novel, the ambitious Night Inspector, this brief and carefully wrought tale of a man's struggle to come to terms with the role his father played in the Korean War is also more...
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Frederick Busch, Author . Norton $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-393-04978-7
The legacies of betrayal, illicit love, guilt and loss haunt the protagonist of Busch's powerful new novel, a meditation on the long reach of history, and its aftermath of alienated souls. The son of Polish immigrants who escaped the Nazis by...
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Frederick Busch, Author . Norton $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-393-05103-2
With a particular sense of landscape and of the rhythms of rural life, Busch (A Memory of War
, etc.) once again maps out his home territory, upstate New York, in this hybrid of a somber literary novel and hard-boiled detective story.
This follow-up
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Frederick Busch, Author . Norton $24.95 (316p) ISBN 978-0-393-06252-6
American letters endured a major loss in February 2006 with the sudden death of the author of North
, The Night Inspector
and 23 other books. Set in the present—from the battlefields of Iraq (two stories: "Good to Go" and "Patrols&
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Frederick Busch, Author Ticknor & Fields $19.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-395-58968-7
The author of Harry and Catherine and Absent Friends , among other distinguished literary works, Busch has reached a new level of achievement with this taut and gripping novel. Former Marine Phantom pilot Mark Brennan is a small-town attorney in...
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Frederick Busch, Author New Directions Publishing Corporation $15.95 (114p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1103-1
National Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award-winner Busch ( Absent Friends ) here offers a short, gory Gothic novella centering on the goings-on of two fashionably thirtysomething lovers: Peter Santore, a dull-witted American lawyer who...
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Frederick Busch, Author Ballantine Books $13.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-449-91263-8
Sweeping pathos, historical knowledge, philosophical density and gruesome violence make Busch's 19th work of fiction both profound and a page-turner. Busch's articulate narrator, William Bartholomew, served as a Union sniper in the Civil War until...
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Frederick Busch, Author W. W. Norton & Company $25.95 (309p) ISBN 978-0-393-04973-2
Because his writing is masterly and his perceptions dazzling and true, it's exhilarating to encounter each of the 16 stories and one novella in Busch's (The Night Inspector) new collection. All of them resonate with incisive observations about the...
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Frederick Busch, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-19255-6
Thought-provoking, honest and carefully considered, this reminiscence by novelist, critic and teacher Busch (Girls; Closing Arguments) will enhance any writer's--or reader's--reference library. The 16 chapters examine both quality fiction (Dickens,...
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Frederick Busch, Author Alfred A. Knopf $18.95 (290p) ISBN 978-0-394-57425-7
A highly intelligent writer with romance in his soul, Busch ( Absent Friends ) here depicts middle-aged love between two beguiling characters. Off-and-on lovers for more than a dozen years, the eponymous protagonists reencounter each other when...
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Frederick Busch, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $21.95 (338p) ISBN 978-0-395-64724-0
Busch's magical, moving stories cut to the bone, revealing concealed fears, pains and hopes as he surveys the wreckage of fractured families, embattled marriages, ruptured lives. He proffers no neat endings, no assurances. A country doctor whose dog
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Frederick Busch, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $21.95 (292p) ISBN 978-0-395-63415-8
""Freedom's messy stuff, I think,"" observes Lizzie Bean Mastracola, a high school principal in Pennsylvania, to a student being sexually abused by her father. Wise and patient Lizzie, the most compelling character in Busch's ( Closing Arguments )...
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Frederick Busch. Norton, $32.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-393-23954-6
Arriving seven years after the untimely death of novelist and short story writer Busch (Girls), this collection showcases his mastery of the short story form over the span of almost 40 years. Whether his subject is domestic life (“The Lesson of the...
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Frederick Busch, Author, Harry Ford, Editor Alfred A. Knopf $18.95 (278p) ISBN 978-0-394-57426-4
These 14 stories represent a master of the genre writing with his customary power and eloquence. Busch, the recipient of several notable fiction awards, is the author of four previous short story collections ( Too Late American Boyhood Blues ),...
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Frederick Busch, Author, Robin Desser, Editor Vintage Books USA $10 (290p) ISBN 978-0-679-73076-7
Fiercely independent divorcee Catherine is courted by her off-and-on lover of over a dozen years, Harry, as well as by a contractor with whom Harry has his differences. Although Busch has a ``tendency to overdo introspection and stint on action,''...
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