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Night Inspector : A Novel by Frederick Busch (2000, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherRandom House Publishing Group

ISBN-100449006158

ISBN-139780449006153

eBay Product ID (ePID)1627781

Product Key Features

Book TitleNight Inspector : a Novel

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2000

TopicLegal, Literary, Biographical, Historical

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorFrederick Busch

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight9.3 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN00-190145

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition21

Reviews"Compelling . . . A marvelously dark-hued story by a master craftsman." --The New York Times Book Review "A SUBLIMELY DARK WORK OF ALMOST UNBEARABLE BEAUTY. An exploration of evil, hidden identities and the dehumanizing forces of commerce, The Night Inspector has a moral heft and stylistic grace not unlike the work of [Herman Melville]." --The Wall Street Journal "A STYLISTIC GEM OF A BOOK, FLAWLESSLY PLOTTED AND PHILOSOPHICALLY RICH . . . Busch has followed his remarkable novel, Girls, not with a merely effective novel, but an essential one. . . . Stunning." --Boston Globe "THIS HAUNTING AND INTENSE NARRATIVE'S WRITING EXPLODES ON EACH PAGE WITH PRECISE FEROCITY." --Dallas Morning News

Dewey DecimalFIC

SynopsisAn immensely powerful story, The Night Inspector follows the extraordinary life of William Bartholomew, a maimed veteran of the Civil War, as he returns from the battlefields to New York City, bent on reversing his fortunes. It is there he meets Jessie, a Creole prostitute who engages him in a venture that has its origins in the complexities and despair of the conflict he has left behind. He also befriends a deputy inspector of customs named Herman Melville who, largely forgotten as a writer, is condemned to live in the wake of his vanished literary success and in the turmoil of his fractured family. Delving into the depths of this country's heart and soul, Frederick Busch's stunning novel is a gripping portrait of a nation trying to heal from the ravages of war--and of one man's attempt to recapture a taste for life through the surging currents of his own emotions, ambitions, and shattered conscience.