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"Recipient of the 1991 PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the short story, Frederick Busch confirms his achievement in this unsettling and affecting collection of new and selected stories. Like Hansel and Gretel, the characters in The Children in the Woods are concerned with survival; in the subtle playing out of this dark fairy tale, Busch makes palpable the themes of love, loss, alienation, and disillusionment." "In "Critics," it is the hierarchy of familial relationships that isolates an only child; in "The Settlement of Mars," a young boy's first recognition of the adult world is a frightening and disorienting experience; in "My Father, Cont.," a child fantasizes he will be abandoned by his bickering parents; and in "Folk Tales," a man's reappraisal of his life is catalyzed by the discovery of old correspondence in his mother's safe-deposit box after she dies. In all of these stories Busch is a master at exposing the vulnerability that resonates in each of the characters. As Shelby Hearon proclaimed in the New York Times Book Review of Absent Friends, Busch's most recent collection, "These stories hit us where we live: alone."" "Busch's previous collections of stories and his highly acclaimed novels Closing Arguments and Long way from Home have established his reputation as a writer of powerful literary fiction. The distillation of twenty years of story collections by Frederick Busch, The Children in the Woods is further testimony to the integrity and distinction of his work. Containing eight previously uncollected stories, The Children in the Woods is an opportunity for both old fans and those newly acquainted with his work to celebrate this remarkable writer."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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- "Bread" - a young man and his sister have the difficult task of cleaning out their parents's house after they are killed in a plane crash. As an aside, this was the first time I'd ever heard someone other than Phish reference cluster flies. Quote I liked, "I named the chicken Bunny because I'd never been permitted to own the rabbit my mother had promised me as consolation after she'd shattered my sixth year of life by disclosing that the Easter Bunny did not in fact bring jelly beans and marshmallow chicks the color of radioactive rocks" (p 4).
- "Bring Your Friends to the Zoo" - an adulterous couple meets at the zoo so that one of them can end it. No lines to quote but there was the sardonic phrase, "We want it to be a happy day for you and all the animals" stated over and over.
- "Is Anyone Left This Time of Year?" - a man comes to visit Ireland in November. Since it's post-seasonal no one is around, literally and emotionally. Quote
- "A three-Legged Race" - a mother tries to give her 12 year old son a birthday party. Line worth mentioning, "I married Mac because he was more of a virgin that I was" (p 41).
- "The Trouble With Being Food" - an overweight man confronts his girlfriend's ex-husband. Much like a repeating line in "Bring Your Friends to the Zoo" there was a repeating line in "Trouble."
- "How the Indians Came Home" - a woman's troubled marriage is revealed. Line I liked a lot, "But you can't have what you want, and sometimes you live with wrong mornings" (p 72).
- "Widow Water" - plumber "saves" people.
- "The Lesson of the Hotel Lotti" - a daughter struggles to understand her mother's affair with a married man.
- "My Father, Cont." -a child is paranoid his father is planning to abandon him in the woods ala Hansel and Gretel.
- "What You Might as Well Call Love" - Ben and Marge tackle a sump pump and their marriage.
- "The Settlement on Mars" - Parents take separate vacations.
- "Critics" -
- "Stand, and Be Recognized" - a draft dodger visits an old friend. Line I liked, "Though certainly I knew as I went what I'd learned in coming home, that you cannot be haunted by ghosts of your choosing" (p 186).
- "Ralph the Duck" - a security officer taking college classes rescues a co-ed from an attempted suicide.
- "Dog Song" - a judge lies in a hospital room trying to remember the accident that put him there.
- "One More Wave of Fear" - a family is plagued by squirrels in the attic.
- "The World Began with Charlie Chan" - a late night talk radio host bullies people until a blast from his past rattles his chain.
- "Extra Extra Large" - Brothers try to grow up. "We sat, not eating, to watch our father try to chew what amounted to everything we could offer him" (p 244).
- "The Wicked Stepmother" - a librarian writes to her brother about their father's new wife.
- "Folk Tales" - A man remembers a brief correspondence he had a child with Albert Einstein.
- "Dream Abuse" - a man's nightmares haunt his wife.
- "The Page" - a tale so sad I can't even write about it.
- "Berceuse" - Does a woman regret not having kids after meeting her ex-husband's son?
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