The Western Coast

Defending herself with despairing stubbornness against personal catastrophe, she is able to save her life and escape. "Enormously touching and wholly believable."-Washington Post Book World

About the author

Paula Fox (1923—2017) was the author of Desperate Characters, The Widow’s Children, A Servant’s Tale, The God of Nightmares, Poor George, The Western Coast, and Borrowed Finery: A Memoir, among other books.Frederick Busch (1941–2006) was the recipient of many honors, including an American Academy of Arts and Letters Fiction Award, a National Jewish Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award. The prolific author of sixteen novels and six collections of short stories, Busch is renowned for his writing’s emotional nuance and minimal, plainspoken style. A native of Brooklyn, New York, he lived most of his life in upstate New York, where he worked for forty years as a professor at Colgate University.

Product details

• Authors: Paula Fox, Fox Paula, P. Fox
• Assisted by: Busch Frederick (Introduction)
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 06.09.2001
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9780393322866
• ISBN: 978-0-393-32286-6
• Dimensions (packing): 14 x 21.2 x 2.2 cm
• Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); FICTION / Literary; Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general