North (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393350081)

Combining the pace of a detective story with the bold prose of a master storyteller, North is both an adventure and a pilgrimage. Alone and haunted by memories of his dead wife and child, Jack--who prowled the backwaters of Girls--returns to upstate New York from the Carolina coast, where he has been working as a security guard. A New York lawyer hires him to find her missing nephew, last seen in the area of Jack's northern hometown. His search gradually uncovers a dark underside of rural life and a cast of dangerous characters. Jack is besieged by memories as he uncovers a brutal crime and finds himself in a turbulent relationship with a treacherous woman. In trying to save another's life, Jack must relive his own; memory, obsession, and reality fuse; and Jack discovers the truth of Faulkner's observation that "the past is not really past; it's not even over."

Author: Frederick Busch
ISBN-10: 0393350088
ISBN-13: 9780393350081
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2005
Pages: 306
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d