Author: Frederick Busch
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporatio
Keywords: babies, war
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2001-06-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0811214761
ISBN-13: 9780811214766

Frederick Busch’s novel War Babies is a short, powerful moral tale that sheds light upon the insidious nature of evil and the grip history holds on the lives of the seemingly protected innocent. Peter Santore, the narrator, is an American lawyer in his mid-thirties come to England to track down a certain Hilary Pennels, the daughter of a Korean War hero who died in a POW camp—the same camp in which Peter’s own father turned traitor and whose informing became, perhaps, the cause of Hilary’s father’s death. Only Hilary’s guardian, Fox—himself a survivor of

Author: Frederick Busch
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Keywords: paperbook, directions, new, friends, absent
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 1991-11
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0811211754
ISBN-13: 9780811211758

Author: Frederick Busch
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: novel, north
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2006-04-25
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0345486838
ISBN-13: 9780345486837

Jack is driving north, away from the warm winters and wind-blown beaches of the Carolina coast, far from the shelter he has made for himself–a shelter against the past and the memory of his dead wife and child. A Manhattan lawyer has hired Jack to find her missing nephew, last seen in Upstate New York, the same place where Jack lost his family, and where as a campus security officer he was unable to save a girl from a murderer. Now, for Jack, it’s all about second chances–and what lies hidden in the ground.

Author: Frederick Busch
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: novel, war, memory
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2003-02-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0393049787
ISBN-13: 9780393049787

A multilayered love story that affirms Frederick Busch’s reputation as a writer of "sublimely dark work of almost unbearable beauty" (Wall Street Journal). Psychologist Alexander Lescziak savors a life of quiet sophistication on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, turning a blind eye to the past of his Polish émigré parents. Then a new patient declares that he is the doctor’s half-brother, the product of a union between Lescziak’s Jewish mother and a German prisoner of war. The confrontation jolts Lescziak out of his complacency: suddenly, his failing marriage, his wife&#

Author: Frederick Busch
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: fiction, anyone, don
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2000-10
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0393049736
ISBN-13: 9780393049732

Not since Raymond Carver has the soul of the American family been plumbed as eloquently or as poignantly. The hungers of love and the fear of time drive the men and women, sons and daughters in these stories to speak. Frederick Busch renders precisely the need to connect and shows us the ways--funny, tender, and heartbreaking--in which connections, in spite of love, often fail. In "Heads" a mother is haunted by her own past when her daughter faces an accusation that could send her to jail. In "Malvasia" a daughter gives her bereaved father the courage to go on living. A father suffers over his

Author: Frederick Busch
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Keywords: stories, missions, rescue
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2006-10-16
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 039306252X
ISBN-13: 9780393062526

Stories of mercy and need among lovers, family, and friends by "one of our very best short-story writers" (Anne Beattie).The war in Iraq is present in some of these stories, and so are the domestic wars; and, in every case, a character seeks to comfort or to save someone. "The Rescue Mission" is narrated by a man who runs a rescue mission out of a trailer in upstate New York. In his attempt to save a young woman from the brutality of her boyfriend, he is forced to confront the reality of his own mother’s death. In "Good to Go," an estranged couple try to save their grown son from the sca

Authors:Charles Dickens,  Frederick Busch,
Publisher: Signet Classic
Keywords: classics, signet, cities, tale
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1997-08-01
List price: $4.95
ISBN-10: 0451526562
ISBN-13: 9780451526564

Featuring a new introduction by literature scholar Frederick Busch, the immortal novel of the French Revolution tells the story of the courageous Sydney Carton, a man ready to give his life for a woman who will never be his. Reprint."