Frederick Busch
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A campus policeman's search for a missing girl, followed by the capture of her murderer. Set in an upstate New York college in the middle of winter, the novel looks at the fear that now exists in such places. By the author of The Children in the Woods.
Author
Language
English
Description
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A contemporary of Ann Beattie and Tobias Wolff, Frederick Busch was a master craftsman of the form; his subjects were single-event moments in so-called ordinary life. The stories in this volume, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout, are tales of families trying to heal their wounds, save their marriages, and rescue their children. In "Ralph the Duck," a security guard struggles to hang on to his marriage. In "Name the Name," a traveling...
Author
Publisher
D.R. Godine
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
Zimmer's wife, Lil, says their love is dead. He says it's just tired. Divorcing, he feels as if his whole love life is passing before him - and then part of it really is, in the still-sexy person of old flame Rhona Glinsky. In interlocking flashbacks set against the backdrop of New York City, Busch lets his hapless hero tell his story of the angst-driven complications of both licit and illicit love. It was Greenwich Village in the Sixties, and Zimmer...
14) Take this man
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
The long term story of a broken love affair between Anthony and Ellen beginning in 1944, and resuming in 1956, 1963 and 1980.
18) Rounds
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
Eli Silver is a pediatrician in Upstate New York who has accidentally let his only child die. The Sorensons are a childless couple who move from house to house, rebuilding old structures in an effort to rebuild their lives. Elizabeth Bean is a working woman-- unmarried, pregnant, and determined to bear her child. The lives of these people intersect, and eventually interlock, through circumstances that involve both the vagaries of bodily functions...