Busch, Frederick (Vol. 7) - Busch, Frederick 1941–
Busch, Frederick 1941–
Busch is an American novelist, short story writer, and editor. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 33-36.)
Frederick Busch sets stories in the remoter Lake District, the west of Ireland and the hills of New York State, and offers [in Breathing Trouble] not only dismal but macabre glimpses of the human condition: a man obsessively returning to a rubbish dump for 'what's left'; a father and daughter waiting to hear from the mortuary when the winter-hard earth will have softened sufficiently to allow the refrigerated mother to be buried. Throughout the stories, a morbid self-absorption nuzzles in a closer than comfortable relation with loss and death.
Busch's message is at times gloomily convincing. A metaphoric, rhythmed prose provides an often powerful back-up to the plot, conveying states of heart and broken mind more adequately than any long, authorial explanation…. But he takes his characters and...
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