Children in the Woods - Softcover

Busch, Frederick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449909794 ISBN 13: 9780449909799

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1995

"Powerful . . . Fiction of a very high order . . . Frederick Busch at his best."
-- Los Angeles Times Book Review
"[These] provocative tales center around relationships gone awry, families grappling with loss, and lonely men and women struggling with remnants of love . . . . What Busch ultimately serves is a heady and rewarding brew made up of people as real as ourselves, groping for and sometimes even discovering the comforts of love."
-- USA Today
"Memorable . . . [The] stories leap off the page with astonishing resilience and vigor. . . . Busch is a chronicler of domestic manners whose insights into family hierarchies transcend the factual to attain poetry and truth."
-- The Boston Globe

About the Author:

Frederick Busch is the Fairchild Professor of Literature at Colgate University.

From Publishers Weekly:

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 is stolen by a demented marijuana farmer finds himself in the middle of a drug bust ("The Page"). An enormously overweight man who discovers acceptance in the arms of his weekend lover must deal with her violent estranged husband ("The Trouble with Being Food"). Also a novelist ( Long Way from Home ), Busch exploits plot devices brilliantly, as in "Bring Your Friends to the Zoo," in which the contrast between the impersonality of the London Zoo and the heated break-up of an American and his married English lover create tension. Love of another sort fuels "Folk Tales," about a New York psychoanalyst who finds in his deceased mother's safety deposit box a letter he had written as an eight-year-old to Albert Einstein, along with the famed physicist's reply. In these 23 stories from the last two decades, the winner of the 1991 PEN/Malamud award for short fiction shows himself to be a master at exploring the human predicament.
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• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0449909794
• ISBN 13: 9780449909799
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352