Closing Arguments (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Frederick Busch
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1990’s
- Setting: Randall, a small town in upstate New York
- Principal Characters: Marcus “Mark” Brennan, Rochelle, Jack and Mickey, Estella Pritchett, Adina “Dee” Tillim, Sidney Birnbaum, Phan Tuy
- Genres: Long fiction, Suspense
- Subjects: Family or family life, Politics, Sex or sexuality, New England, Child abuse, Violence, War, Lawyers, Tragedy, Prisoners of war, Vietnam or Vietnamese people
- Locales: New York
Closing Arguments, Frederick Busch’s fifteenth book of fiction and seventeenth overall, takes its title from a screenplay which Busch wrote with Scott Millar for Home Box Office in 1987. Subtitled “The Life and Death of Roy Cohn,” that Closing Arguments deals with the man who served as Senator Joseph McCarthy’s assistant in the early 1950’s and who went on to become a high-priced New York lawyer, a noted celebrity, and finally an AIDS victim. As Busch explained to Donald Greiner, Cohn “is a very complex phenomenon, and he’s a darker side of the great Gatsby:...
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