In the Night Season

By Richard Bausch

Book Overview

After the untimely death of her husband, a young mother finds that he was involved with a group of dangerous men in an effort to save his business--a discovery which places her in mortal jeopardy.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060187352
• ISBN13: 9780060187354
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

First Rate Suspense

I had read the book of Bausch's short stories and was impressed. However, this novel was absolutely first rate. He manages to hold the tension in the book right up to the epilogue. I love authors who fully develop their characters, and Bausch is a master of that, even in a suspense novel. As a writer I always read with one eye on the craft of the novel.This was like seeing a movie that had you on the edge of your seat the whole time. I plan to read lots more by this author.

Can't Put It Down--Kept me up ALL NIGHT

I thought this was a great book. As far as mysteries and thrillers go, this one kept me up all night. The characters were realistic and you could keep track of it. It was a great book. I'm looking into other books by Bausch now. I just discovered him after reading Stephen King's book On Writing.

a captivating story with admirable emotional resonance

"IN THE NIGHT SEASON falls into the realm of traditional American romanticism, a vector that reaches from Hemingway to Dickey's DELIVERANCE to Stone's DOG SOLDIERS to Pinckney Benedict's flamboyant DOGS OF GOD. As in these novels, SEASON's characters inhavit the rural wilderness, wehre they find that the true threat to their well-being isn't the savagery of nature, but the brutality of the human heart. What distinguishes Bausch's novel from its predecessors is that the heroic protagonists aren't rough-hewn monosyllabic men, but a seemingly helpless widow and her young son. . . .A captivating story with admirable emotional resonance." --The Sun Sentinell, Ft. Lauderdale

pulse-racing suspense

"With IN THE NIGHT SEASON, Bausch weds a plot with all the pulse-racing suspense of a popular crime novel to a sensitive limning of two recurrent themes in his recent work: the rivulets causing family love to wander off course and the reaction of ordinary people to extraordinary dangers....Richard Bausch has long been one of the most expert and substantial of our writers. And his talent is long overdue for wider recognition." --Boston Globe

An extraordinary and compelling thriller

The terrors of "The Night Season" have their source in a vulnerability of modern life. Families broken by death, divorce and infidelity are left exposed to the brutalities that lie in wait "out there." Bausch has written his most compelling plot without sacrificing his extraordinary genius in developing the lives and motivations of characters with whom you grow to understand as deeply as your own self. This novel is as frightening as any Steven King book without the manipulation. This book makes you confront the night season that resides within as well as without.