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Girls: A Novel

por Frederick Busch

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Fiction. Literature. HTML:A New York Times Notable Book

In the unrelenting cold and bitter winter of upstate New York, Jack and his wife, Fanny, are trying to cope with the desperate sorrow they feel over the death of their young daughter. The loss forms a chasm in their relationship as Jack, a sardonic Vietnam vet, looks for a way to heal them both.

Then, in a nearby town, a fourteen-year-old girl disappears somewhere between her home and church. Though she is just one of the hundreds of children who vanish every year in America, Jack turns all his attention to this little girl. For finding what has become of this child could be Jack's salvationâ??if he can just get to her in time. .
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I first read GIRLS (1997) more than twenty years ago when I was only just discovering the fiction of Frederick Busch. It's perhaps his best known book of the thirty that he wrote in a career that spanned nearly forty years. Busch was never afraid to plumb the darkest side of a man's most secret thoughts and nature, and he went deep in this one, about a fourteen year-old girl gone missing in a bleak upstate New York winter, and a campus cop, identified only as Jack, who is enlisted as an unwilling investigator. Jack is also the narrator here, and his own story unfolds in stages. A veteran of Vietnam where he was an MP, while he didn't see combat, he bears his own psychic scars from that time, and now his marriage is on shaky ground following the recent death of an infant daughter, an event neither he nor his wife, Fanny, can talk about. Grief and denial figure prominently throughout this tragic tale, but so too do infidelity and betrayal. Jack's affair with Rosalie Piri, a professor who is described as tiny and girlish, takes on disturbing nuances as he also tries to solve the disappearance of the teenager, the daughter of a minister. College life in the 90s is painfully accurate in its portrayal, as Jack targets a drug dealer, rescues a girl attempting suicide after an affair with her professor, and coordinates with a student committee to prevent rape.

And yet, despite all the dark threads mentioned here, I often found myself chuckling or even guffawing at small things slipped into Jack's stream of consciousness narration, sometimes subtle irony, and sometimes just flat out funny. Weaving dark and light together this way? Not easy. But Busch is a master at this kind of unexpected comic relief, as well as making you squirm at the nastier stuff or scaring the hell out of you.

I had read GIRLS before, but could not remember "whodunit," and Busch kept me guessing to the very end. This is simply one helluva good read, and if you've never read any Fred Busch, this book would be a good place to begin. My very highest recommendation.

- Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir, BOOKLOVER ( )
  TimBazzett | Jun 19, 2022 |
I didn't get this book and only made it half way through. What is a university security guard doing trying to find lost girls? Compelled by the fact that he lost an infant? Makes no sense, perhaps because I had no understanding or feeling for the main character. Very disappointing. ( )
  ghefferon | Aug 16, 2017 |
• Pourquoi ce livre ?
J’ai choisi ce livre parce que j’avais envie d’essayer une lecture dans un genre que je ne lis habituellement pas, soit le roman policier. Depuis que j’ai découvert la plateforme pretnumerique.ca, accessible grâce à mon abonnement à BANQ, il ne m’a jamais été autant facile d’emprunter et de retourner des livres. Le fait de pouvoir changer de lecture en quelques clics, dans le confort de mon salon, a fait en sorte que je me suis lancée dans des lectures auxquelles je ne me serai jamais arrêtée par le passé. C’est ce qui explique que j’ai lu ce roman.

• Un aspect qui m’a plu :
J’ai beaucoup aimé l’intrigue de ce roman. En effet, le fait de me questionner sur qui pourrait être le coupable a été très divertissant. D’ailleurs, le fait que l’on ne puisse pas deviner aisément l’issue de l’histoire, a fait de ce roman, pour moi, un bon roman policier, puisque le suspense a su être gardé jusqu’à la fin. De plus, j’ai trouvé que l’histoire tenait debout et je comprenais en quoi le coupable était en effet le coupable. Tout cela a fait en sorte que je considère qu’il s’agit d’une bonne intrigue policière.

• Un aspect qui m’a moins plu :
Un sentiment de malaise qui ne m’a pas plu. Les thématiques abordées dans ce roman sont dures et je pourrais les résumer en disant que le simple fait de naître « fille » est un danger en soi (risque de viol, enlèvement, meurtre, etc.). Ces sujets ayant été abordés avec une certaine réalité ont fait en sorte que, par moment, je ne me sentais pas très bien. Surement cela est dû au fait que je suis moi-même une fille et je trouve le titre d’autant plus approprié : Filles. Bref, ce malaise n’était pas un sentiment que j’ai apprécié ressentir.

L’objet numérique :
a. Fonctions liées à l’affichage et à l’annotation
Les fonctions du lecteur Adobe Connect sont plutôt limitées. Le changement de page ne s’effectue que par clic de souris ou l’usage des flèches sur le clavier. Pour ce qui est de la police, la seule fonctionnalité existante est celle d’ajuster la taille (petite à ultra grande). D’ailleurs, le choix de la taille de la police influence directement le défilement des pages. Si l’affichage est dans des tailles plus petite, la lecture s’effectue avec un défilement de gauche à droite, sinon, le défilement est de haut en bas. Je n’ai trouvé aucune fonctionnalité en lien avec le traitement du texte (annotation, surlignage, etc.). Le seul autre élément qui peut être mis en place, c’est un ou des signets numériques.
b. Fonctions hypertextuelles
Les fonctions hypertextuelles de la navigation s’effectuent à partir de la table des matières et des signets numériques (si on a pris la peine d’en positionner) uniquement. Ceux-ci apparaissent sur le côté gauche du lecteur, si on choisit de les faire afficher, et diminuent grandement l’espace de lecture restant. Il est donc préférable de refermer le tout lorsque nous nous sommes positionner à l’endroit désiré (chapitre, page, etc.). Je n’ai trouvé aucun renvoi interne lors de ma lecture. J’ai trouvé deux renvois externes à la fin du roman amenant respectivement à la page web de la collection et de la maison d’édition.

Bref, malgré les fonctionnalités restreintes, je trouve que celles-ci suffisent amplement lors de mes lectures. Toutefois, je dois avouer qu’il serait très intéressant de pouvoir annoter et surligner.
  sandra6344a16 | Oct 7, 2016 |
What an unexpected delight. ( )
  kylenapoli | Feb 10, 2014 |
I picked up Frederick Busch's book hoping for a reasonably well done crime novel and got so much more than that. It was wonderfully written; Busch has the astonishing knack of making his words both eloquent and spare. His characters became people I knew, complex and interesting and the setting, a private university in upstate New York during a harsh winter, was so clearly drawn as to make me pull on gloves. Busch writes a little like Castle Freeman, Jr., which suits perfectly the setting of the book, but also with an understated descriptiveness that reminded me a little of Hemingway.

And, for all that, this is an unpretentious book about how a girl gone missing from a small farming community impacts the life of a man with the sorrow of his own daughter's death. Jack works as a university security guard, protecting the pampered children of well-to-do families as they do their best to misbehave. His wife and he are not doing so well; although they both wish their relationship was better, improving it seems to be impossible. Jack isn't a talkative man and his closest relationship is with his dog. When an acquaintance asks him to look into the girl's disappearance, he is reluctant to get involved. The state police know what they are doing and his investigating days never amounted to more than getting drunk servicemen to admit to their acts of violence. He slowly becomes obsessed with the missing girl, as she becomes mixed in his mind with his own daughter.

As much a psychological study of people handling more than they're equipped for, the plot nonetheless is well put together, creating a book that is both an entertainment and worth thinking about afterward. ( )
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Fiction. Literature. HTML:A New York Times Notable Book

In the unrelenting cold and bitter winter of upstate New York, Jack and his wife, Fanny, are trying to cope with the desperate sorrow they feel over the death of their young daughter. The loss forms a chasm in their relationship as Jack, a sardonic Vietnam vet, looks for a way to heal them both.

Then, in a nearby town, a fourteen-year-old girl disappears somewhere between her home and church. Though she is just one of the hundreds of children who vanish every year in America, Jack turns all his attention to this little girl. For finding what has become of this child could be Jack's salvationâ??if he can just get to her in time. .

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