Girls (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Frederick Busch
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The late twentieth century
- Setting: Upstate New York and New Mexico
- Principal Characters: Jack, Fanny, Janice Tanner, Randolph Strodemaster, Rosali Piri, William Franklin, Archie Halpern
- Genres: Long fiction, Mystery and detective literature, Suspense
- Subjects: Civil rights, Self-discovery, Murder or homicide, Police, Child abuse, Emotions, College life, Adultery, Working class, Infants, Winter
- Locales: New York, New Mexico
Frederick Busch is a highly prolific author whose novels sometimes strike an uneasy balance between the popular and the literary. Girls is constructed very much like a thriller, with the epilogue coming first to tease the reader with a description of a crime scene, then a gradual unfolding of clues leading to a killer and the violent exposure of that killer at the end. At the same time, Busch writes of domestic concerns that would usually lie in the province of more literary works, and in this respect Girls concerns a working-class couple’s traumatization when their...
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