Long Way from Home (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Frederick Busch
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The late twentieth century
- Setting: Upstate New York, western Pennsylvania, and Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Principal Characters: Elizabeth Bean Mastracola, Willis Mastracola, Sarah, Barrett, Stevie, Gloria Dodge
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Abused persons, Education or educators, Rural or country life, Adoption or adopted children, Newspapers, Interior design, Birthparents
- Locales: New York, Pennsylvania, Santa Fe, NM
Long Way from Home takes its title from a nineteenth century spiritual, made popular in the 1960’s by Peter, Paul and Mary, about a person who sometimes feels “like a motherless child.” Motherless children and being a long way from home are important motifs in this novel whose point of departure is the 1960’s, the decade when two of its major characters are born and three others make significant choices that will affect the rest of their lives. In most respects, however, Long Way from Home is a novel of and for the 1980’s and 1990’s, especially in Frederick...
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