· Frederick Busch has given us a heady mixture of emotion, narrative and history in The Night Inspector. This is a powerful novel, a gripping tale of a hero who is damaged emotionally as well as physically. William Bartholomew is a civil war sniper whom fate has punished with a hideous face wound, forever hidden behind a papier-mache mask.5/5(5). · Vividly realistic yet dense with metaphor, “The Night Inspector,” with its voyages on the water, its markets and economies, its darkness and betrayal and trade all . · THE NIGHT INSPECTOR. by Frederick Busch ‧ RELEASE DATE: . The prolific Busch returns to the genre of historical reconstruction he attempted so successfully in The Mutual Friend (), which reimagined the Victorian world of Dickens. This story is set in New York City in , and also in the painfully vivid memories and premonitions experienced by its narrator, Civil War Author: Kirkus Reviews.
The Night Inspector by Frederick Busch An 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. The Night Inspector. By FREDERICK BUSCH Harmony Books. Read the Review "No mouth," I told him. M dined that night at eight. He had stopped on his way to the Customs in the morning, asking Cheerie to hold a small table for his supper. Cheerie was a good comrade. We had nearly died together in a canonade that killed a half a dozen horses and. Last Updated on May 6, , by eNotes Editorial. Word Count: Near the end of Frederick Busch's compelling novel The Night Inspector, Herman Melville, once a popular novelist but now, in.
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. Frederick Busch has given us a heady mixture of emotion, narrative and history in The Night Inspector. This is a powerful novel, a gripping tale of a hero who is damaged emotionally as well as physically. William Bartholomew is a civil war sniper whom fate has punished with a hideous face wound, forever hidden behind a papier-mache mask. Vividly realistic yet dense with metaphor, “The Night Inspector,” with its voyages on the water, its markets and economies, its darkness and betrayal and trade all hard at work on the subterranean.
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