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  • The Stories of Frederick Busch

    de Frederick Busch ...
    A selection of short stories from a twentieth-century "American master" (Dan Cryer, Newsday).A contemporary of Ann Beattie and Tobias Wolff, Frederick Busch was a master craftsman of the form; his subjects were single-event moments in so-called ordinary life. The stories in this volume, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout, are tales of families trying to heal their wounds, save ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Dangerous Profession

    A Book About the Writing Life

    de Frederick Busch ...
    Frederick Busch has an enduring love affair with great books, and here he brilliantly communicates his passion to us all. Whether expounding on Melville or Dickens, or celebrating Hemingway or O'Hara, he explains what literature can ineffably reveal about our own lives. For Busch, there was no other recourse save the "dangerous profession;" it was to be his calling, and in these piercing essays, ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Nord

    Traducido por Stéphanie Levet ...
    de Frederick Busch ...
    "Voilà Jack, l’ancien flic qui dans Filles enquêtait sur la disparition d’une adolescente, de retour chez lui, dans le nord de l’État de New York. Désormais déchu au rang de vigile dans un complexe hôtelier de la côte de Caroline, il se voit proposer par une avocate qu’il sauve des griffes d’un gigolo un travail du genre de ceux qu’il a autrefois pratiqués : rechercher son jeune neveu parti se ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Filles

    de Frederick Busch ...
    Traducido por Nadia Akrouf ...
    Parce que sa vie lui échappe, parce que sa petite fille de quelques mois est morte et que son couple se désagrège, parce qu’il va mal, Jack, ancien flic devenu vigile à l’université, accepte d’enquêter sur la disparition d’une adolescente, Janice Tanner. Quelque temps plus tard, une autre fillette disparaît... Autour de Jack, s’étend l’interminable hiver nord-américain, la neige qui recouvre tout ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Girls

    A Novel

    de Frederick Busch ...
    A New York Times Notable BookIn the unrelenting cold and bitter winter of upstate New York, Jack and his wife, Fanny, are trying to cope with the desperate sorrow they feel over the death of their young daughter. The loss forms a chasm in their relationship as Jack, a sardonic Vietnam vet, looks for a way to heal them both.Then, in a nearby town, a fourteen-year-old girl disappears somewhere ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • The Night Inspector

    A Novel

    de Frederick Busch ...
    An immensely powerful story, The Night Inspector follows the extraordinary life of William Bartholomew, a maimed veteran of the Civil War, as he returns from the battlefields to New York City, bent on reversing his fortunes. It is there he meets Jessie, a Creole prostitute who engages him in a venture that has its origins in the complexities and despair of the conflict he has left behind. He also ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Why I Like This Story

    de Jackson R. Bryer, Diana Wagman, Doris Betts, Doris Grumbach, E. Annie Proulx, Edmund Keeley, Edward Kelsey Moore, Elizabeth Spencer, Ellen Douglas, Elliot Ackerman0, Frederick Busch1, A. R. Gurney2, George Garrett3, Herbert Gold4, Howard Norman5, Jack Greer6, Jane Hamilton7, Jill McCorkle8, Joan Silber9, Joanna Scott0, Joyce Kornblatt1, Alan Cheuse2, Julia Alvarez3, Julia Glass4, Kao Kalia Yang5, Kate Christensen6, Lee K. Abbott7, Leslie Pietrzyk8, Mako Yoshikawa9, Mary Kay Zuravleff0, Mary Lee Settle1, Maud Casey2, Alice McDermott3, Molly Giles4, Nicholas Delbanco5, Olga Grushin6, Pamela Erens7, R. H. W. Dillard8, Richard Bausch9, Rilla Askew0, Rion Amilcar Scott1, Sabina Murray2, Susan Coll3, Andre Dubus4, William H. Gass5, Andrea Barrett6, Ann Beattie7, Beverly Lowry8, Clarence Major9 ...
    On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that "Nobody can read like a writer," Why I Like This Story presents brief essays by forty-eight leading American writers on their favorite American short stories, explaining why they like them. The essays, which are personal, not scholarly, not only tell us much about the story selected, they ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • The Philosophy of Recognition

    Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

    de Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch, Frederick Neuhouser, Michael Quante, Ludwig Siep, Terry Pinkard, Daniel Brudney, Andreas Wildt, Nancy Fraser, Jay M. Bernstein, HeikkiI käheimo0, Axel Honneth1, Emmanuel Renault2, Jean-Philippe Deranty3, Arto Laitinen4 ...
    The theory of recognition is now a well-established and mature research paradigm in philosophy, and it is both influential in and influenced by developments in other fields of the humanities and social sciences. From debates in moral philosophy about the fundamental roots of obligation, to debates in political philosophy about the character of multicultural societies, to debates in legal theory ... Leer más

    $141.99 USD

  • The First Negro League Champion

    The 1920 Chicago American Giants

    Edición de Frederick C. Bush, Bill Nowlin, Carl Riechers ...
    On December 16, 2020, Major League Baseball announced that seven Negro Leagues, from various seasons spanning the years 1920 to 1948, were being recognized as major leagues and that all statistics from those leagues and seasons would henceforth be considered part of the major-league record books. The earliest league to be included is the first iteration of the Negro National League (NNL), founded ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Western Coast

    A Novel

    de Paula Fox ...
    America and the catastrophic world of twentieth-century war, mass murder, and horror are the backdrop of this story of Annie Gianfala, a young woman who finds herself cast adrift in Hollywood with World War II looming.Defending herself with despairing stubbornness against personal catastrophe, she is able to save her life and escape. "Enormously touching and wholly believable."— Washington Post ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Newark Eagles Take Flight: The Story of the 1946 Negro League Champions

    SABR Digital Library, #68

    de Society for American Baseball Research, Frederick C. Bush, Bill Nowlin ...
    Series Libro 68 - SABR Digital Library
    The Newark Eagles won only one Negro National League pennant during the franchise's 15-year tenure in the Garden State, but the 1946 squad that ran away with the NNL and then triumphed over the Kansas City Monarchs in a seven-game World Series was a team for the ages. World War II had ended, and numerous players who had served in the military returned to resume their playing careers with the ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The 1939 Baltimore Elite Giants

    Edición de Frederick Bush, Thomas Kern, Bill Nowlin ...
    Series series Champions of Black Baseball
    This book on the 1939 Negro National League II champion Baltimore Elite Giants is part of a series of SABR books about the great Negro League teams of the first half of the twentieth century.The Giants were first formed in Nashville in 1921, but moved around from location to location over the years - Columbus and Washington, DC, became way stations for team founder Tom Wilson as he moved the team ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD