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The Risk Pool - paperback, Richard Russo, 9780679753834

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ISBN
9780679753834
Book Title
Risk Pool
Book Series
Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Item Length
8 in
Publication Year
1994
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
1.2 in
Author
Richard Russo
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Family Life, General, Literary, Coming of Age
Item Weight
15 oz
Item Width
5.3 in
Number of Pages
496 Pages
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679753834
ISBN-13
9780679753834
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features

Book Title
Risk Pool
Number of Pages
496 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Family Life, General, Literary, Coming of Age
Publication Year
1994
Genre
Fiction
Author
Richard Russo
Book Series
Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
15 oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in

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Trade
LCCN
89-040075
Reviews
"Russo proves himself a master at evoking the sights, feelings, and smells of a town. . . . [The Risk Pool is] superbly original and maliciously funny." --The New York Times Book Review "A fine, closely observed novel . . . Richard Russo writes with such sympathy and attention to the rhythms of small-town life that he invests inarticulate lives with genuine passion. . . . [He] has succeeded in creating characters with the emotional weight of people we've known in real life." --The New York Times "Weighted with wonderful detail . . . a rich, anecdotal novel brimming with the metaphorical lessons of adolescence: on pocket billiards and sexual frustration, trout fishing and serenity." --Boston Globe "Richard Russo has it just perfect in The Risk Pool. A gem of a novel." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch From the Trade Paperback edition., "Russo proves himself a master at evoking the sights, feelings, and smells of a town. . . . [ The Risk Pool is] superbly original and maliciously funny." -- The New York Times Book Review "A fine, closely observed novel . . . Richard Russo writes with such sympathy and attention to the rhythms of small-town life that he invests inarticulate lives with genuine passion. . . . [He] has succeeded in creating characters with the emotional weight of people we've known in real life." -- The New York Times "Weighted with wonderful detail . . . a rich, anecdotal novel brimming with the metaphorical lessons of adolescence: on pocket billiards and sexual frustration, trout fishing and serenity." -- Boston Globe "Richard Russo has it just perfect in The Risk Pool . A gem of a novel." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "Russo proves himself a master at evoking the sights, feelings, and smells of a town. . . . [The Risk Poolis] superbly original and maliciously funny." --The New York Times Book Review "A fine, closely observed novel . . . Richard Russo writes with such sympathy and attention to the rhythms of small-town life that he invests inarticulate lives with genuine passion. . . . [He] has succeeded in creating characters with the emotional weight of people we've known in real life." --The New York Times "Weighted with wonderful detail . . . a rich, anecdotal novel brimming with the metaphorical lessons of adolescence: on pocket billiards and sexual frustration, trout fishing and serenity." --Boston Globe "Richard Russo has it just perfect inThe Risk Pool. A gem of a novel." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Dewey Edition
20
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
813.54
Synopsis
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls comes a wonderfully funny novel 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. "Superbly original and maliciously funny." -- The New York Times Book Review 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. Look for Richard Russo's new book, Somebody's Fool , coming soon., 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 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. In the traditions of Thornton Wilder and Anne Tyler, The Risk Pool was hailed by The New York Times as "...superbly original and maliciously funny. Russo proves himself a master at evoking the sights, feelings, and smells of a town.", From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls comes a wonderfully funny novel 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. "Superbly original and maliciously funny." - The New York Times Book Review 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. Look for Richard Russo's new book, Somebody's Fool , coming soon.
LC Classification Number
PS3568.U812

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