Long Way from Home - Softcover

Busch, Frederick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449909220 ISBN 13: 9780449909225

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1994

Synopsis

Frederick Busch's previous best seller, Closing Arguments, was hailed as one of the most powerful novels of the year. Long Way from Home takes up where Closing Arguments left off. Relentless in its psychological and narrative drive, it is a profoundly contemporary novel about marriage, family, adoption, divorce - and the terrible nightmare of a child left in jeopardy. After Sarah abandons her family to search for her biological mother, her husband deposits their son with his in-laws and embarks on a self-destructive trip across the country to recover his wife. Sarah, heading in a different direction, locates her natural mother, an itinerant nurse and dispenser of herbal remedies named Gloria, who evinces a pronounced interest in "her" grandson. Alarmed, Sarah returns home - but not before Gloria has kidnapped the emotionally distraught boy. Sarah and her adoptive mother, Lizzie, must then set out in a desperate attempt to regain the child. Frederick Busch's compelling novel is the tale of a family under siege, the account of the accumulating results of one desperate act taken by a wife/daughter/mother, and the story of a child at the mercy of his own disintegrating family. It triumphantly demonstrates that Frederick Busch is at the top of his craft.

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Review

"Absorbing, fast-paced and a joy to read."
--The Boston Globe

About the Author

Frederick Busch (1941-2006) received the PEN/Malamud Award in short fiction, and, from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Award of Merit. His books were finalists for the PEN/Faulkner and National Book Critics Circle Awards.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0449909220
• ISBN 13: 9780449909225
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292