Frederick Busch

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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books
  • First Book:
    October 1974
  • Latest Book:
    December 2013
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Book List in Order: 23 titles

  • Manual Labor

  • Domestic Particulars

  • The Mutual Friend

    The subject of Frederick Busch’s extraordinary fiction, The Mutual Friend, is Charles Dickens. First published in 1978, Busch’s portrait of the Chief (or the Inimitable, as Dickens calls himself” was immediately hailed as a lively, accurate, an...

  • Rounds

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    The lives of Eli Silver, a pediatrician who accidentally lets his only child die, the childless Sorensons, and pregnant, unmarried Elizabeth Bean interlock through circumstances that involve the vagaries of bodily functions and emotional extremes...

  • Take This Man

  • Too Late American Boyhood Blues

  • Absent Friends

    For twenty years now, Frederick Busch has been a relentless chronicler of the human heart. Except for an occasional foray abroad, he has tented to set his fiction in a physical territory … the North-East, upstate New York especially … which he ha...

  • War Babies

    A short but powerful tale weaving together moral complexity and romantic intrigue, Frederick Busch’s War Babies is the story of an American lawyer in his mid-thirties (Peter Santore) who travels to England in an attempt to tie up the loose ends ...

  • Harry And Catherine

    Here is that rarest and most satisfying of books: a grown-up love story. Harry and Catherine have been falling in and out of love for many years. She is divorced, determinedly raising two sons, and running a small gallery in upstate New York. He is a...



  • Closing Arguments

    Closing Arguments is the story of a shocking murder trial, a disintegrating marriage, an obsessive love affair. Not a day goes by but Mark Brennan remembers Vietnam. In some ways he seems a textbook case of post-traumatic combat stress. Brennan carri...

  • Mutual Friend A Novel

  • Long Way from Home

    "AM I YOUR MOTHER?" The headline screams out to Sarah from the pages of the personal ads. Suddenly seized with an "emergency feeling," she abandons her husband, Barrett, and their six-year-old son, Stephen, to search for her biological mother in rura...

  • Children in the Woods

    "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 strugglin...

  • Girls

    In the unrelenting cold and bitter winter of upstate New York, Jack and his wife, Fanny, are trying to cope with the desperate sorrow they feel over the death of their young daughter. The loss forms a chasm in their relationship as Jack, a sardonic V...

  • Invisible Mending

  • The Night Inspector

    An immensely powerful story, The Night Inspector follows the extraordinary life of William Bartholomew, a maimed veteran of the Civil War, as he returns from the battlefields to New York City, bent on reversing his fortunes. It is there he meets Jess...

  • Don't Tell Anyone

    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 precisel...

  • A Memory of War

    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 u...

  • North

    Combining the pace of a detective story with the bold prose of a master storyteller, North is both an adventure and a pilgrimage. Alone and haunted by memories of his dead wife and child, Jack -- who prowled the backwaters of Girls -- returns to upst...



  • Rescue Missions

    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 Ne...

  • The Selected Stories of Frederick Busch

    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...

  • The Stories of Frederick Busch

    A selection of short stories from a twentieth-century "American master" (Dan Cryer, "Newsday") 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...

  • Too Late American Boyhood

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Frederick Busch has published 23 books.

Frederick Busch does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Selected Stories of Frederick Busch, was published in December 2013.

The first book by Frederick Busch, Manual Labor, was published in October 1974.

No. Frederick Busch does not write books in series.
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