Richard Russo
Anyone familiar with Russo’s novels will recognize Gloversville—once famous for producing nine out of ten dress gloves...
2) Empire Falls
“Rich, humorous ... Mr. Russo’s most seductive book thus far.” —The New York Times
Welcome to Empire Falls, a blue-collar town full of abandoned...
For Griffin, all paths, all memories, converge at Cape Cod. The Cape is where he took his childhood summer vacations,...
Lucy is sixty years old and has spent his entire life in Thomaston, New York. Like his late, beloved...
As his parents’ marriage disintegrates, a precocious if distracted fifth-grader starts to daydream about baseball, spaghetti, and his place in the universe. Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo is one of America’s finest writers, and here, truthfully and with compassion, he unwinds the slow disillusionment of childhood.
A selection from Russo’s...
In his first collection, a master storyteller focuses on a fresh and fascinating range of human behavior. A jaded Hollywood movie-maker uncovers a decades-old flame he never knew he'd harbored; a precocious fifth grader puzzles over life, love, and baseball as he watches his parents' marriage dissolve; another child is forced into a harrowing cross-country escape; an elderly couple rediscovers the power of their relationship; and in the title story,
...7) Mohawk
10) Trajectory
When Donald Trump claimed victory...
12) Nobody's fool
13) Chances are
14) Straight man
While the title novella of Dubus' Finding a Girl in America returns to the somewhat off-the-rails literary life of Hank Allison, the collection's opening story strikes a much darker tone: "Killings"—the basis of the Academy Award–nominated film In the Bedroom—is a swift tale of revenge that leaves readers wondering what they might do in the name of family love.
Dubus' prowess with narrative compression is on
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