Sometimes I Live in the Country

by Frederick Busch

Book Overview

Petey's parents have separated, moved from New York City to a New York village. His father, a truant officer in the local high school. Petey has begun to play a suicidal game with his father's .38,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879236221
• ISBN13: 9780879236229
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
• Length: 218 Pages

Customer Reviews

Powerful

A NYC former cop and his 13-year-old son are now living in upstate NY on a farm. We learn late in the book that the father has kidnapped his son (the boy misses his mom and plays Russian roulette with his father's gun). The father befriends a black man and has a showdown with the local KKK. Busch captures the boy's despair and father's anger excellently. He has a unique writing style in the way he relates the story. The very ending is unsatisfactory because Busch is just too cryptic in telling what happens, but all in all the novel can be highly recommended.