In his biggest, boldest novel yet, the much-acclaimed author of Nobody's Fool
and Straight Man
subjects a full cross-section of a crumbling Maine mill town to piercing, compassionate scrutiny, capturing misfits, malefactors and misguided honest
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Richard Russo, Author . Knopf $24 (240p) ISBN 978-0-375-41168-7
Russo's sterling reputation is largely due to his astounding ability to present the tangled emotions of troubled parent-child and marital relationships with comic verve, bracing clarity and dramatic tension fused with an undercurrent of pathos....
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Richard Russo, Author . Knopf $26.95 (527p) ISBN 978-0-375-41495-4
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Richard Russo’s portraits of smalltown life may be read not only as fine novels but as invaluable guides to the economic decline of the American Northeast. Russo was reared in Gloversville, N.Y. (which got
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Richard Russo, Author . Knopf $25.95 (261p) ISBN 978-0-375-41496-1
Crafting a dense, flashback-filled narrative that stutters across two summer outings to New England (and as many weddings), Russo (Empire Falls
) convincingly depicts a life coming apart at the seams, but the effort falls short of the literary magic
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Richard Russo, Author Vintage Books USA $15.95 (560p) ISBN 978-0-679-75333-9
Set in the economically desperate ex-resort town of North Bath, N.Y., Russo's novel displays his characteristic verbal panache and biting wit. (May)
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Richard Russo, Author Vintage Books USA $6.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-394-74910-5
In his compelling debut, Russo lays bare the foibles and tragedies of the human condition against the backdrop of a fictitious small town in upstate New York. Particularly skillful is his vivid description of Mohawk, a loser of a place, whose...
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Richard Russo, Author Random House (NY) $19.95 (479p) ISBN 978-0-394-56527-9
Brilliantly fulfilling the promise of his first novel, Mohawk , Russo sets this richly satisfying narrative in the same blue-collar milieu of that fictional upstate New York town. The narrator, Ned Hall, or ``Sam Hall's boy,'' as he is always...
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Richard Russo, Author Vintage Books USA $12 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-72334-9
``Brilliantly fulfilling the promise of his first novel, Mohawk , Russo's ``richly satisfying narrative'' is about the coming-of-age of Ned Hall, son of Sam Hall--a disreputable barfly, petty thief and gambler whose wicked ways place him at the...
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Richard Russo, Author Random House (NY) $23 (549p) ISBN 978-0-394-57778-4
It's about time that people looking for a good read discovered the novels of Richard Russo. It's not just that he writes with panache, his verbal dexterity a mixture of biting wit and potent insight. He also endows his subjects-- blue-collar people...
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Richard Russo, Author Random House (NY) $25 (391p) ISBN 978-0-679-43246-3
Picture this: William Henry (Hank) Devereaux Jr., tenured professor at a second-rank college in Pennsylvania, where he is chairman of the fractious English Department, faces TV cameras wearing a false nose and glasses, brandishing a goose over his...
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Richard Russo. Knopf, $25.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-307-95953-9
The Gloversville, N.Y., native and Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist (Empire Falls) fashions a gracious memoir about his tenacious mother, a fiercely independent GE employee who nonetheless relied on her only son to manage her long life. Separated...
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Richard Russo. Knopf, $27.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-307-27064-1
When Doug Raymer, chief of police of the forlornly depressed town of North Bath, N.Y., falls into an open grave during a funeral service, it is only the first of many farcical and grisly incidents in Russo's shaggy dog story of revenge and...
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Richard Russo, Author, Richard Russo, Read by, Ron McLarty, Read by , read by Ron McLarty. Harper Audio $42.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-694-52559-1
In the small Maine town of Empire Falls, replete with long defunct logging and textile mills, the Whiting clan embarks on its inexorable demise. The family has owned the town and controlled its environment, economy and inhabitants for generations....
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Richard Russo, Author, Arthur Morey, Read by . Random House Audio $44.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-1889-8
The challenge facing those who perform Russo's novels is the self-effacing, low-key nature of his protagonists. The line between a faithful rendition of the character and a snoozer may be as narrow as the street that divides the rich from the...
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Richard Russo. Knopf, $25.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-101-94772-2
The four stories in Russo’s (Everybody’s Fool) new collection are all winners, and one is a standout. His familiar blue-collar denizens of dying mill towns are not present here; these characters are professionals, middle-aged or beyond, successful...
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Richard Russo. Knopf, $29 (464p) ISBN 978-0-593-31789-1
Russo (Nobody’s Fool) concludes his North Bath trilogy with a wise and witty drama of small-town life. Donald “Sully” Sullivan, the hero of the first two books, has been dead for 10 years, a loss that many of the characters in this volume continue...
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Richard Russo. Knopf, $25.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-5247-3351-3
In his first essay collection, Russo (Everybody’s Fool) rambles leisurely through a broad range of topics with his characteristically amiable voice. In a commencement speech to the 2004 graduating class of Colby College, where he then taught, the...
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Richard Russo. Knopf, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-101-94774-6
Russo’s first standalone novel in a decade (after Everybody’s Fool) mixes his signature themes—father-and-son relationships, unrequited love, New England small-town living, and the hiccups of aging—with stealthy clue-dropping in a slow-to-build...
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