Awards

• Winner of ALA Notable Books (Fiction) 2001

Overview

"The parents and children in these stories are driven to speak by the hungers of love and the fear of time. Tender, funny, sometimes heartbreaking, Busch captures our need to connect, the failures that make us human, and the triumphs that make us splendid. In ""Heads"" a mother is haunted by her own past when her daughter is accused of a murder. In ""Malvasia"" a daughter gives her bereaved father the gift to go on living. A father suffers over his inability to save his grown son from heartbreak in ""Passengers."" ""The Joy of Cooking"" is a tour de force about a failed marriage. Called a ""first-rate American storyteller,"" and a ""master craftsman"" by the New York Times Book Review, Busch delivers a moving portrait of the American family."

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Frederick Busch is one of our very best short story writers. Don't Tell Anyone is an intimate book-it concerns intimacy, and it's been written from a zoom lens perspective, though Busch's enlargements of small moments are exquisite in their subtlety. There are none of those all too common, boring characters-who-can't-communicate in his fiction: instead, the characters are eloquent and even quite brilliant. One sees very acutely the price they have paid, and the path they have traveled, to their enlightenment. -- Ann Beattie

Author Information

Frederick Busch (1941–2006) was the recipient of many honors, including an American Academy of Arts and Letters Fiction Award, a National Jewish Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award. The prolific author of sixteen novels and six collections of short stories, Busch is renowned for his writing’s emotional nuance and minimal, plainspoken style. A native of Brooklyn, New York, he lived most of his life in upstate New York, where he worked for forty years as a professor at Colgate University.

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