The Children in the Woods: New and Selected Stories

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 039564724X ISBN 13: 9780395647240

Publisher: Ticknor & Fields/Houghton Mifflin, 1994

The author of Absent Friends presents an unsettling anthology of stories, including "My Father, cont." in which a child fantasizes that he will be abandoned by his bickering parents, and other tales. National ad/promo.

From the Back Cover:

"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.