Devereaux's reluctance is partly rooted in his character--he is a born anarchist--and partly in the fact that his department is more savagely divided than the Balkans. In the course of a single week, wonder if a curvaceous adjunct is trying to seduce him with peach pits, imagine his wife is having an affair with his dean, Devereaux will have his nose mangled by an angry colleague, and threaten to execute a goose on local television.
All this while coming to terms with his philandering father, the dereliction of his youthful promise, and the ominous failure of certain vital body functions. In short, straight man is classic Russo—side-splitting, compassionate, poignant, and unforgettable.
Nobody's Fool
Nobody’s fool was made into a movie starring Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Jessica Tandy, and Melody Griffith. This slyly funny, moving novel about a blue-collar town in upstate New York—and in the life of Sully, of one of its unluckiest citizens, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years—is a classic American story.
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Empire Falls
In empire falls richard russo delves deep into the blue-collar heart of America in a work that overflows with hilarity, heartache, and grace. Winner of the pulitzer Prize“Russo writes with a warm, vibrant humanity. Miles roby has been slinging burgers at the Empire Grill for 20 years, a job that cost him his college education and much of his self-respect.
Vintage. Or maybe it’s janine, miles’ soon-to-be ex-wife, who’s taken up with a noxiously vain health-club proprietor. Or perhaps it’s the imperious francine Whiting, who owns everything in town–and seems to believe that “everything” includes Miles himself. Great product!
Everybody's Fool: A Novel Vintage Contemporaries
Now, ten years later, doug raymer has become the chief of police and is tormented by the improbable death of his wife—not to mention his suspicion that he was a failure of a husband. Filled with humor, and hard-luck characters you can’t help but love, heart, Everybody’s Fool is a crowning achievement from one of the great storytellers of our time.
. Vintage. Meanwhile, the irrepressible sully has come into a small fortune, but is suddenly faced with a VA cardiologist’s estimate that he only has a year or two left to live. As sully frantically works to keep the bad news from the important people in his life, we are reunited with his son and grandson.
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That Old Cape Magic: A Novel Vintage Contemporaries
But when their beloved laura’s wedding takes place a year later, Griffin is caught between chauffeuring his mother’s and father’s ashes in two urns and contending with Joy and her large, unruly family. Both he and she have also brought dates along. Vintage.
Mohawk
Vintage. Mohawk, new york, is one of those small towns that lie almost entirely on the wrong side of the tracks. His ex-wife, anne, is stuck in a losing battle with her mother over the care of her sick father. And their son, randall, is deliberately neglecting his school work--because in a place like Mohawk it doesn't pay to be too smart.
In mohawk, richard russo, pulitzer Prize-winning author, explores these lives with profound compassion and flint-hard wit. Its citizens, too, have fallen on hard times.
The Risk Pool
His father, sam, cultivates bad habits so assiduously that he is stuck at the bottom of his auto insurance risk pool. Russo proves himself a master at evoking the sights, feelings, and smells of a town. Great product! 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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Dear Committee Members
His once-promising writing career is in the doldrums, as is his romantic life, in part as the result of his unwise use of his private affairs for his novels. A best book of the year: npr and Boston Globe Finally a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary. Jason fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal arts college in the midwest.
Vintage. In short, low spirits, and the vehicle this droll and inventive novel uses to tell that tale is a series of hilarious letters of recommendation that Fitger is endlessly called upon by his students and colleagues to produce, his life is a tale of woe, each one of which is a small masterpiece of high dudgeon, and passive-aggressive strategies.
Anchor Books. Vintage. Vintage. We recommend dear Committee Members to you in the strongest possible terms.
Chances Are . . .: A novel
. Is a stunning demonstration of a highly acclaimed author deepening and expanding his remarkable achievement. Vintage. Shot through with Russo's trademark comedy and humanity, Chances Are. 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 men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. Vintage. But each man holds his own secrets, in addition to the monumental mystery that none of them has ever stopped puzzling over since a Memorial Day weekend right here on the Vineyard in 1971: the disappearance of the woman each of them loved--Jacy Calloway.
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Bridge of Sighs: A Novel Vintage Contemporaries
Vintage. Lucy's oldest friend, once a rival for his wife's affection, leads a life in Venice far removed from Thomaston. Vintage. 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.
And with his story interspersed with that of noonan, constantly surprising, too are relentless, the destinies building up around both of them and Sarah, the native son who’d fled so long ago, and utterly revealing. Anchor Books. Yet it was her shrewdness, combined with that lynch optimism, that had propelled them years ago to the right side of the tracks and created an “empire” of convenience stores about to be passed on to the next generation.
Vintage Books USA. Like his late, beloved father, though he’s had plenty of reasons not to be—chief among them his mother, Lucy is an optimist, still indomitably alive.
Trajectory: Stories Vintage Contemporaries
Great product! Anchor Books. And “milton and marcus” takes us into a lapsed novelist’s attempt to rekindle his screenwriting career—a career that depends wholly, at a crucial moment, on two Hollywood icons one living, one dead. In “intervention, ” a realtor facing a serious medical prognosis finds himself in his late father’s shadow.
In “horseman, ” a young professor confronts an undergraduate plagiarist—as well as her own regrets. Shot through with russo’s inimitable humor, wisdom, and surprise, Trajectory is the work of a masterful writer continuing to discover new heights. Vintage.