Night Inspector - Hardcover

Busch, Frederick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0609602357 ISBN 13: 9780609602355

Publisher: Crown Publications, 1999

Synopsis

When William Bartholomew, a maimed veteran of the Civil War, becomes involved with a Creole prostitute in 1867 New York City, he discovers the continuing underground trade in black people, a case that embroils him with Boston newpaperman Samuel Mordechai and a deputy customs inspector named Herman Melville. 30,000 first printing. Tour.

About this title

About the Authors

Frederick Busch is the Edgar Fairchild Professor of Literature at Colgate University.

<b>Frederick Busch's</b> most recent book, <b>Girls</b>, was a <i>New York Times</i> Notable book for 1997. His short story collection, <b>The Children in the Woods</b>, was a finalist for the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award. He has received the PEN/Malamud Award for achievement in short fiction, the National Jewish Book Award, as well as an award for fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has held Woodrow Wilson, National Endowment for the Arts, James Merrill, and Guggenheim fellowships and has been acting director of the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. The Edgar Fairchild Professor of Literature at Colgate University, he teaches creative writing and fiction and also directs the Living Writers program.

From the Inside Flap

tory told with insight and powerful language, <b>The Night Inspector</b> chronicles an unforgettable character who navigates the desperate days and sleepless nights of a gilded yet polluted nineteenth-century New York.<br> <br>William Bartholomew, a maimed veteran of the Civil War, returns from the battlefields to New York City a hardened man, bent on reversing his fortunes. Much of the lower half of his face was torn apart when he was felled by enemy fire, and he is forced to wear a mask in his postwar life as a New York financial speculator. Despite the solitude of his past life, Bartholomew, once a deadly sniper, now lives among all manner of slum dwellers, thieves, and murderers. As he prowls the city, he becomes involved with Jessie, a Creole prostitute who engages him in a venture that has its origins in the complexities and despair of the Civil War. And he befriends a deputy inspector of customs named Herman Melville--who, largely forgo

Edition details

• Publisher: Crown Publications
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0609602357
• ISBN 13: 9780609602355
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 278