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Title: Girls (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Frederick Busch ISBN: 0449912639 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.89
Rating: 5
Summary: a meditation on loss
Comment: It is easy to come under the spell of Frederick Busch's almost meditative writings on loss.Girls is no exception. Jack is a security guard on a school campus. Fanny is a registered nurse at a local hospital. Their marriage is being destroyed due to the loss of their only child, a baby named Hannah. There is blame. Their is truth. Their is sheilding from the truth. There is pain. A minister and his wife, the Tanners, have a daughter who is a student at Jacks school. She dissappears and is feared kidnapped. Jack a former MP in Vietnam, although just a security guard, is asked to help find Hannah, the girl. Because of the estrangement of Jack and Fanny, Jack gets involved with a professor at the school.Throughout the book we wonder at how Hannah died. Not untl the end do we find the full facts about Hannahs death and the missing daughter of the Tanners.A meditation on loss.
Rating: 5
Summary: Highly Controversial and Glorious
Comment: Our college has a mystery book club. I don't read mysteries generally, but I liked the idea of all of us talking about books. When I recommended they read Girls, I figured everyone would love it as I did. Silly me. My colleagues (with only one exception) hated it. They hated Jack. They hated the story. They hated everything except the dog. I felt so bad until I realized that this is not a book for mystery lovers. Mystery lovers want tidy stories; there's comfort in a good mystery that makes life seem to have some sense, some logic. But Busch's writing is not a mystery of that type. It's a love story. It's a religious tract. It's a war story. It's the kind of book that grabs you by the throat and shakes you alive, whether you want to be or not. And readers who, for whatever reason, would prefer not to be shaken, hate the book. Busch is one of my favorite writers. He is magical and honest and always moves me deeply. But he does not write mysteries.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Compelling Read
Comment: I came upon this book quite on accident, yet I'm pleased that I did! Frederick Busch, a prolific writer who has written over a dozen works since the 1970's does a wonderful job of telling the story of Jack, a Vietnam vet, who is struggling with the loss of his daughter, and the gradual loss of his marriage. Jack is a compelling character, with a wonderful narrative voice. There is a mystery of dead/missing girls which Jack gets wrapped up into, and yet, there is so much more here, like the healing process which Jack so needs to experience.
If you're looking for a pure thriller/mystery about missing girls, then look elsewhere. If you want a richly layered novel with believable characters, a great plot, and with some unexpected surprises thrown in, READ THIS. I, personally, have just purchased two new Busch novels, and I can't wait to see how they stack up with Girls.
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Title: Closing Arguments (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Frederick Busch ISBN: 0449907503 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Don't Tell Anyone (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Frederick Busch ISBN: 0345443934 Publisher: Ballantine Books (Trd Pap) Pub. Date: 28 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Night Inspector: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Frederick Busch ISBN: 0449006158 Publisher: Ballantine Books (Trd Pap) Pub. Date: 02 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Unless: A Novel by Carol Shields ISBN: 0007141076 Publisher: Fourth Estate Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Three Junes by Julia Glass ISBN: 0375422412 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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