Books by Tom Barbash and Complete Book Reviews
Tom Barbash. Ecco, $22.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-225812-0
The central theme of Barbash’s venture into short fiction is grief: whether because of divorce, disease, or death, his characters all struggle to recover from emotional trauma. This struggle takes many forms: a boy copes with feelings of guilt over...
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Tom Barbash. Ecco, $26.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-225819-9
Barbash’s spirited latest revolves around a family that lives in the Dakota, the Upper West Side apartment building where Rosemary’s Baby was set and outside of which John Lennon was assassinated. Here, in 1980, 23-year-old Anton Winter is just back
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Thomas Barbash, Author, Tom Barbash, Author . Picador $24 (448p) ISBN 978-0-312-28796-2
Barbash shows himself to be a knowing guide to smalltown politics in a first novel with extraordinary empathic reach. Steven Turner is a young journalist exiled at a paper in Lakeland, a decaying port town in rural upstate New York. His best friend,
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