Frederick Busch was an American writer who authored nearly thirty books, including volumes of short stories and novels.
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North
2005
ISBN 9780393051032
Absent Friends
1989
ISBN 9780394574264
Closing Arguments
1992
ISBN 9780670844272
Letters to a fiction writer
1999
ISBN 9780393047356