Frederick Busch
Don't Tell Anyone
Fiction
An eloquent and poignant work of fiction about the soul of the American family, and about storytelling itself, by one of our country's most important writers.
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.
"Fred Busch is the consummate craftsman, but these stories go beyond craft to art. A stunning collection."—Ward Just
"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
Frederick Busch, author of most recently The Night Inspector, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN Faulkner Award, is the recipient of the PEN/Malamud Prize for achievement in the short story. Fairchild Professor of Literature at Colgate University, he lives in upstate New York.
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