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The Children in the Woods : New and Selected Stories by Frederick Busch is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Children in the Woods : New and Selected Stories about?
Recipient of the 1991 PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the short story, Frederick Busch confirms his achievement in this unsettling and affecting collection of new and selected stories. Like Hansel and Gretel, the characters in The Children in the Woods are concerned with survival; in the subtle playing out of this dark fairy tale, Busch makes palpable the themes of love, loss, alienation, and disillusionment. In "Critics," it is the hierarchy of familial relationships that isolates an only child; in "The Settlement of Mars," a young boy's first recognition of the adult world is a frightening and disorienting experience; in "My Father, Cont.," a child fantasizes he will be abandoned by his bickering parents; and in "Folk Tales," a man's reappraisal of his life is catalyzed by the discovery of old correspondence in his mother's safe-deposit box after she dies. In all of these stories Busch is a master at exposing the vulnerability that resonates in each of the characters. As Shelby Hearon proclaimed in the New York Times Book Review of Absent Friends, Busch's most recent collection, "These stories hit us where we live: alone. . Busch's previous collections of stories and his high
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Frederick Busch
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Published
- 1995
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780449909799
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Rating
- 3.55 / 5 (20 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14