Busch Frederick 1941 (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 2nd printing ; name on ep ; black cloth ; "Mark Brennan, a former Marine pilot and escaped POW, struggles to cope with his civilian life as a lawyer, a tension-filled marriage, and a court case involving a woman accused of murdering her lover" ; ISBN: 0395589681, 9780395589687 ; VG/VG. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 243 pp. ; 22 cm. ; 1st edition ; ISBN: 024110467X, 9780241104675 ; cover a little dusty ; small mark from a price sticker on end paper ; remainder mark on bottom text block ; "an agonizingly childless academic couple (previously introduced in Manual Labor, 1974) come to upstate New York and yet another college, fixing up yet one more old house as compensation for their biological incompleteness. Meanwhile, Eli Silver, the local pediatrician, has lost a son in an auto accident and a wife (temporarily) in the backwash of grief. And Elizabeth Bean, a college counselor, is unwillingly pregnant. So from Bean through Silver to Sorenson, there's an intricate, emotionally-fraught triple play: an adoption is arranged. Tendrils of responsibility w ind around all this: Phil's relationship with his illiterate black students; Dr. Silver's guilt over his dead son; Elizabeth's single-occasion lover, the father of her child, a wacko English professor."--Kirkus Reviews ; VG/FINE. Book.…