First Edition, 1st printing. The critically revered, immensely talented author's first hardbound book. Former owner's red-inked name on the front endpaper. A bright, clean, tight copy sans flecks, tears, stains, and discoloration with all text clean/unmarked. "Richard Russo, author of the acclaimed 'Mohawk', returns to his mythical upstate New York town for this grand, old-fashioned novel about a roguish father and his introspective son. Sparkling with wit and heartbreaking in its intimate portrayal of a family torn asunder, 'The Risk Pool' is a journey through the true facts of life-honor, ambition, conflict, deceit and ultimately redemption." 479 pages. LF.

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Titre

The Risk Pool

�diteur

Random House Inc, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.

Date de parution

1988

Langue

anglais

ISBN � 10 chiffres

0394565274

ISBN � 13 chiffres

9780394565279

Reliure

Hardcover

�dition

First Edition

�tat de l'article

Near Fine

�tat de la jaquette

Near Fine

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'No one writing today catches the detail of life with such stunning accuracy' Annie Proulx

The Risk Pool is a thirty-year journey through the lives of Sam Hall, a small-town gambling hellraiser, and his watchful, introspective son Ned. When Ned's mother Jenny suffers a breakdown and retreats from her husband's carelessness into a dream world, Ned becomes part of his father's seedy nocturnal world, touring the town's bars and pool halls, struggling to win Sam's affections while avoiding his sins.

'Russo proves himself a master at evoking the sights, feelings and smells of a town...superbly original and maliciously funny' New York Times Book Review

'If Russo's books possessed only their big-hearted, endlessly revisitable characters, that would be enough. That they also possess belting story lines about broken families, comically recalcitrant pensioners, small-town decay and the indelibility of roots sometimes seems like an act of unparalleled literary generosity' Sunday Times

'Charms readers with its humour and refreshes with it's vast, Dickensian cast of characters' Guardian

Also by Richard Russo: [jpegs of Empire Falls, Nobody's Fool, That Old Cape Magic]

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