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The Bridge of Sighs: Library Editionby Richard RussoISBN 0375414959 (0-375-41495-9)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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The Collected Stories of Richard Yatesby Richard Yates, Richard RussoISBN 0312420811 (0-312-42081-1)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Stories of Richard Yates'Book summary:Although nobody would describe the unflinching stories of Richard Yates as beach reading, a sunny day and a soothing breeze may provide the best possible antidote to the author's trademark gloom. But even if you open the book in the dead of winter, don't expect to put it down, for Yates will draw you in despite yourself. Like the English novelist Anita Brookner--or, more to the point, like his protégé Raymond Carver--he is attracted to small lives. And like a diviner, he seeks out and locates precisely those moments when this smallness is sensed by his characters.
The protagonist of "The Canal," for example, spent most of World War II behind a desk, serving on the European front only during the final months of the conflict. At a postwar cocktail party, however, Miller and his wife encounter a former military officer, and the two begin to exchange stories. It turns out that the officer was decorated for valor in the very same battle that occasioned a major dressing-down for Miller. "I'll put it this way," he was told by his exasperated superior. "You give me more goddamn trouble than all the rest of the men in this squad put together. You're more goddamn trouble than you're worth. You got an answer for that?" Obviously he didn't--and still doesn't.
In an introduction to the 27 stories collected here, Richard Russo celebrates Yates's influence as a teacher at the Iowa Writer's Workshop. Any reader of Raymond Carver, to take just one conspicuous example, will recognize the atmosphere of lonely despair, coupled with small ambitions, that he absorbed from his mentor. It's a fascinating study in literary ancestry, and offers yet another reason to pick up this essential and long-overdue volume. --Regina Marler [via]
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Empire Fallsby Richard RussoISBN 0375726403 (0-375-72640-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Empire Falls'Book summary:Like most of Richard Russo's earlier novels, Empire Falls is a tale of blue-collar life, which increasingly resembles a kind of high-wire act performed without the benefit of any middle-class safety nets. This time, though, the author has widened his scope, producing a comic and compelling ensemble piece. There is, to be sure, a protagonist: fortysomething Miles Robey, proprietor of the local greasy spoon and the recently divorced father of a teenage daughter. But Russo sets in motion a large cast of secondary characters, drawn from every social stratum of his depressed New England mill town. We meet his ex-wife Janine, his father Max (another of Russo's cantankerous layabouts), and a host of Empire Grill regulars. We're also introduced to Francine Whiting, a manipulative widow who owns half the town--and who takes a perverse pleasure in pointing out Miles' psychological defects.
Miles does indeed have a tendency to take it on the chin. And his role as Mr Nice Guy thrusts him into all sorts of clashes with his not-so-nice contemporaries, even as the reader patiently waits for him to blow his top. It would be impossible to summarise Russo's multiple plot lines here. Suffice it to say that he touches on love and marriage, lust and loss and small-town economics, with more than a soupcon of class resentment stirred into the broth. This is, in a sense, an epic of small and large frustrations: "After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble?" Yet Russo's comedic timing keeps the novel from collapsing into an orgy of breast-beating, and his dialogue--snappy and natural and efficiently poignant--is itself sufficient cause to put Empire Falls on the map. --Bob Brandeis, Amazon.com [via]
Maine: The Seasonsby Terrell S. Lester, Ann Beattie, Richard Ford, Richard Russo , Elizabeth StroutISBN 0375411186 (0-375-41118-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Mohawkby Richard RussoISBN 0375412867 (0-375-41286-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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- Mohawk: ISBN 0340426403 (0-340-42640-3)
Softcover, Hodder General Publishing Division - Mohawk: ISBN 0394744098 (0-394-74409-8)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Mohawk: ISBN 0394749103 (0-394-74910-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books - Mohawk: ISBN 0434659053 (0-434-65905-3)
Hardcover, Heinemann Educational Books - Mohawk: ISBN 0375412867 (0-375-41286-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Nobody's Foolby Richard RussoISBN 0099308819 (0-09-930881-9)
Softcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nobody's Fool'Book summary:In his slyly funny and moving new novel, the author of The Risk Pool follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbeat, upstate New York town--and in the lives of the unluckiest of its citizens. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, and Jessica Tandy. Author reading tour.
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Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - Nobody's Fool: ISBN 0517166232 (0-517-16623-2)
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The Risk Poolby Richard RussoISBN 0099276496 (0-09-927649-6)
Softcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Risk Pool'Book summary:A wonderfully funn and perceptive novel in the traditions of Thornton Wilder and Anne Tyler, 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 veers between allegiances to these grossly inadequate role models, Richard Russo gives us a book that overflows with outsized characters and outlandish predicaments and whose vision of family is at once irreverent and unexpectedly moving.
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The Story Behind the Story: 26 Writers and How They Workby Richard RussoISBN 0393325326 (0-393-32532-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Straight Manby Richard RussoISBN 0099276097 (0-09-927609-7)
Softcover, Random House
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The Student Bodyby Richard RussoISBN 0299174042 (0-299-17404-2)
Softcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Student Body'Book summary:Fiction, like life, has its lessons, and its a wild ride on the learning curve when storytelling goes to school. The short stories in this collection negotiate the heights, the depths, and the unexpected angles of campus intrigue, sexual and intellectual awakenings and reckonings, and all the heartache and hilarity of a sentimental education. The work of such well-known authors as Stephen King, Marly Swick, and Ron Carlson appears here as well as stories by most promising new voices. The results are sometimes harrowing (in Kings story, a serial killer roams a campus), sometimes droll (in Lucia Perillos "The Wife of an Indian," an academic adjusts his ethnicity to get tenure), and often poignant (as in Dan Chaons story of the aftermath of an accident that injures a fraternity president.)[via]More editions of The Student Body:
Tannersvilleby Richard RussoISBN 0099458977 (0-09-945897-7)
Hardcover, Random House
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The Whore's Child and Other Storiesby Richard RussoISBN 0375726012 (0-375-72601-2)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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