The Whore's Child: And Other Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) - Hardcover

Russo, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375411682 ISBN 13: 9780375411687

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2002

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Book by Russo Richard

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A collection of short fiction explores the lives of a variety of characters, including a jaded Hollywood filmmaker, a precocious fifth-grader watching his parents' marriage disintegrate, and a child forced into a harrowing cross-country escape.

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Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling Empire Falls―also named the year’s best novel by Time―Richard Russo now focuses, in his first book of short fiction, on a fresh and fascinating range of human behavior. With a fluency of tone that will surprise even his devoted readers, he captures both bewildering horror and heartrending tenderness with an absorbing, compassionate authority.

We warm to these newcomers―as to all Russo’s characters―almost despite ourselves. A jaded Hollywood moviemaker 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 whose actual purpose he learns only after the fact. An elderly couple rediscovers the power, and the misery, of their relationship during a long-awaited retreat to a resort island. And in the title story, a septuagenarian nun invades the narrator’s college writing workshop with an incredible saga.

A masterful novelist here extends his versatility and accomplishment, in a collection that demonstrates yet again that “there is a big, wry heart beating at the center of Russo’s fiction” (The New Yorker).

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0375411682
• ISBN 13: 9780375411687
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 225