Following the best-selling Everybody's Fool, a new collection of short fiction that demonstrates that Richard Russo--winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls--is also a master of this genre. Russo's characters in these four expansive stories bear little similarity to the blue-collar citizens we're familiar with from many of his vels. In Horseman, a professor confronts a young plagiarist as well as her own weaknesses as the Thanksgiving holiday looms closer and closer: And after that, who knew? In Intervention, a realtor facing an omius medical progsis finds himself in his father's shadow while he presses forward--or t. In Voice, a semiretired academic is conned by his increasingly estranged brother into coming along on a group tour of the Venice Biennale, fleeing a mortifying incident with a traumatized student back in Massachusetts but encountering further complications in the maze of Venice. And in Milton and Marcus, a lapsed velist struggles with his wife's illness and tries to rekindle his screenwriting career, only to be stymied by the pratfalls of that trade when he's called to an aging, iconic star's mountaintop retreat in Wyoming.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1101947721
ISBN-13
9781101947722
eBay Product ID (ePID)
233885044
Product Key Features
Format
Sewn,Cloth over Boards, Hardback
Language
English
Topic
General & Literary Fiction
Author
Richard Russo
Additional Product Features
Date of Publication
02/05/2017
Country of Publication
United States
Author Biography
In addition to The Whore's Child, RICHARD RUSSO is the author of nine novels, most recently the best-selling Everybody's Fool and That Old Cape Magic, and the memoir Elsewhere. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls. He lives in Portland, Maine.