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  | | Elsewhere(Reprint) A Memoir by Richard Russo Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2013 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-94976-9, ISBN: 0-307-94976-1 "A Washington Post Notable Work of NonfictionAn NPR Best Book of 2012Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Russo turns to memoir in this hilarious and bittersweet account of his lifelong bond with his high-strung, spirited mother—and the small town she spent her life trying to escape. Anyone familiar with Russo’s novels will recognize Gloversville—once famous for producing nine out of ten dress gloves in the United States. By the time ..." |
 | | Bridge of Sighs(1st Edition) A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) by Richard Russo Paperback, 642 Pages, Published 2008 by Vintage Contempories Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-3090-3, ISBN: 1-4000-3090-0 "This moving novel follows Louis Charles Lynch (“Lucy”) as he and his wife of forty years are about to embark on a vacation to Italy. Lucy is sixty years old and has spent his entire life in Thomaston, New York. Like his late, beloved father, Lucy is an optimist, though he’s had plenty of reasons not to be—chief among them his mother, still indomitably alive. Yet it was her shrewdness, combined with that Lynch optimism, that had propel ..." |
 | | Straight Man(1st Edition) A Novel by Richard Russo Paperback, 391 Pages, Published 1998 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-375-70190-0, ISBN: 0-375-70190-7 "First Jane Smiley came out of the comedy closet with Moo, a campus satire par excellence, and now Richard Russo has gotten in on the groves-of-academe game. Straight Man is hilarious sport, with a serious side. William Henry Devereaux Jr., is almost 50 and stuck forever as chair of English at West Central Pennsylvania University. It is April and fear of layoffs--even among the tenured--has reached mock-epic proportions; Hank has yet to ..." |
 | | Chances Are . . . (Paperback) by Richard Russo Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2020 by Vintage, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-101-97199-4, ISBN: 1-101-97199-1 "Shot through with Russo's trademark comedy and humanity, Chances Are . . . also introduces a new level of suspense and menace that will quicken the reader's heartbeat." |
 | | The Whore's Child(Reprint) Stories by Richard Russo Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2003 by Vintage Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-375-72601-9, ISBN: 0-375-72601-2 "In The Whore's Child, Richard Russo's first collection of short fiction, the 2002 Pulitzer Prize-wining author of Empire Falls explores difficult emotional territory while retaining the assured wisdom and humor of his best work. Infidelity, self-reflection, and the fallibility of memory come into consideration in this entertaining and perceptive collection. The book's titular story sets the tone for the whole: an elderly nun crashes a ..." |
 | | Chances Are . . .(1st Edition) A novel by Richard Russo Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2019 by Knopf Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-1-101-94774-6, ISBN: 1-101-94774-8 "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a new revelation: a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship.One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. They couldn't have been more different then, or even today--Lincoln's a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a ti ..." |
 | | Nobody's Fool(1st Edition) by Richard Russo, Rick Russo Paperback, 560 Pages, Published 1994 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-679-75333-9, ISBN: 0-679-75333-8 "In 1750, without warning or apparent reason, the mineral springs of the colonial resort town of Bath, New York, ran dry. A little more than two hundred years later, after numerous warnings and for too many reasons, Sully, the unluckiest man in this unlucky town, isn't doing too hot either. He's broke, out of a job, and the owner of a dead pickup truck. The good news? Sully has the dumbest man in North Bath as his devoted friend, a long- ..." |
 | | Everybody's Fool(Reprint) A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) by Richard Russo Paperback, 544 Pages, Published 2017 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-45482-9, ISBN: 0-307-45482-7 "An immediate national best seller and instant classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls. Richard Russo returns to North Bath—“a town where dishonesty abounds, everyone misapprehends everyone else and half the citizens are half-crazy” (The New York Times)—and the characters who made Nobody’s Fool a beloved choice of book clubs everywhere. Everybody’s Fool is classic Russo, filled with humor, heart, hard times, and pe ..." |
 | | The Destiny Thief(Reprint) Essays on Writing, Writers and Life by Richard Russo Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2019 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-525-43533-4, ISBN: 0-525-43533-6 "“I’ve written a lot about destiny in my fiction,” admits Richard Russo, “not because I understand it, but because I’d like to.” In the first of these eleven remarkable essays, Russo shares the story of his onetime fiction workshop classmate who, of the two of them, was considered the class star, bound for literary glory. Yet it was Russo who emerged as a major writer. How, he wonders, did he manage to steal his classmate’s destiny? What ..." |
 | | Trajectory(Reprint) Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) by Richard Russo Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2018 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-1-101-97198-7, ISBN: 1-101-97198-3 "StoriesBroschiertes BuchThe characters in these four expansive stories are a departure from the blue-collar denizens that populate so many of Richard Russo's novels; and all are bound together by parallel moments of reckoning with their pasts. In "Horseman," a young professor confronts an undergraduate plagiarist-as well as her own regrets. In "Intervention," a realtor facing a serious medical prognosis finds himself in his late father' ..." |
 | | Trajectory A short story collection by Richard Russo Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2018 by Allen & Unwin ISBN-13: 978-1-76029-720-6, ISBN: 1-76029-720-8 "Richard Russo's characters in these four expansive stories bear little similarity to the blue-collar citizens we're familiar with from many of his novels. In 'Horseman,' a professor confronts a young plagiarist as well as her own weaknesses as the Thanksgiving holiday looms closer and closer. In 'Intervention,' a real estate agent facing an ominous medical prognosis finds himself in his father's shadow while he presses forward - or not. ..." |
 | | Everybody's Fool(1st Edition) A novel by Richard Russo Hardcover, 496 Pages, Published 2016 by Knopf Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-307-27064-1, ISBN: 0-307-27064-5 "A New York Times 2016 Notable BookAn immediate national best seller and instant classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls. Richard Russo returns to North Bath—“a town where dishonesty abounds, everyone misapprehends everyone else and half the citizens are half-crazy” (The New York Times)—and the characters who made Nobody’s Fool a beloved choice of book clubs everywhere. Everybody’s Fool is classic Russo, filled wit ..." |
 | | The Risk Pool(Reprint) by Richard Russo Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 1994 by Vintage Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-679-75383-4, ISBN: 0-679-75383-4 "A wonderfully funny, perceptive novel The Risk Pool is set in Mohawk, New York, where Ned Hall is doing his best to grow up, even though neither of his estranged parents can properly be called adult. His father, Sam, cultivates bad habits so assiduously that he is stuck at the bottom of his auto insurance risk pool. His mother, Jenny, is slowly going crazy from resentment at a husband who refuses either to stay or to stay away. As Ned v ..." |
 | | The Best American Short Stories 2010(1st Edition) (The Best American Series (R)) by Richard Russo, Heidi Pitlor, Steve Almond, Marlin Barton, Charles Baxter, Jennifer Egan, Danielle Evans, Joshua Ferris, Lauren Groff, Wayne Harrison, James Lasdun, Rebecca Makkai, Brendan Mathews, Jill Mccorkle, Kevin Moffett, Tea Obreht Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2010 by Mariner Books /Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-547-05532-9, ISBN: 0-547-05532-3 "Edited by the award-winning, best-selling author Richard Russo, this yearâs collection boasts a satisfying âchorus of twenty stories that are by turns playful, ironic, somber, and meditativeâ (Wall Street Journal). With the masterful Russo picking the best of the best, Americaâs oldest and best-selling story anthology is sure to be of âenduring qualityâ (Chicago Tribune) this year." |
 | | Chances Are . . .(Large Print) A novel by Richard Russo Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2019 by Random House Large Print Large Print ISBN-13: 978-0-593-15366-6, ISBN: 0-593-15366-9 "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls comes a new revelation: a riveting story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship.One beautiful September day, three sixty-seven-year old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. They couldn't have been more different then, or even today--Lincoln's a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press publisher, and Mickey a m ..." |
 | | The Destiny Thief Essays on Writing, Writers and Life by Richard Russo Paperback, Published 2019 by Atlantic ISBN-13: 978-1-76063-263-2, ISBN: 1-76063-263-5 |
 | | The Destiny Thief Essays on Writing, Writers and Life by Richard Russo 224 Pages, Published 2018 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-1-5247-3352-0, ISBN: 1-5247-3352-0 "In these nine essays, Richard Russo provides insight into his life as a writer, teacher, friend, and reader." |
 | | Trajectory Stories by Richard Russo 256 Pages, Published 2017 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-1-101-94773-9, ISBN: 1-101-94773-X "Asked about his own morning, Nate explains that he spent most of it among the Tintorettos at the Scuola San Rocco, then sipping expensive cappuccino in the Piazza San Marco. He even mentions that his phone sent him on a wild-goose chase, though he plays the whole ordeal ... he says. “Are you okay?” He appears to give the question serious thought before saying, “Why don't you just tell me to fuck off?” To the others, Nate can tell, ..." |
 | | Everybody's Fool A novel by Richard Russo Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 2017 by Vintage Books ISBN-13: 978-1-101-94696-1, ISBN: 1-101-94696-2 "Not sleep, not riches, not a woman. Just beer and this cool dark room. He certainly didn't need Jerome telling him why he should be enjoying anything else. “If you're so worried about the car, go outside and stand guard. In fact, why don't you go back to Schuyler and drink microswill at Adfinitum.” “Infinity,” Jerome corrected him. “Right,” Raymer said, now remembering the posh sign. No words, just the symbol, a drunken 8 lying on ..." |
 | | Vintage Contemporaries Straight Man by Richard Russo 416 Pages, Published 2011 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-80994-0, ISBN: 0-307-80994-3 "The screen is full of shapes and shadows, and I can't be sure which is the asymmetry that troubles Phil Watson. As I study the image, I can feel the warm glow of anticipation return and radiate all the way to my fingertips. I confront the question: ..." |
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