The Straight Man: a Novel - Hardcover

Russo, Richard

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ISBN 10: 0679432469 ISBN 13: 9780679432463

Verlag: Random House USA Inc, 1997

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During one tortuous week, Hank Devereaux, head of the English department at the state university in Railton, Pennsylvania, has his nose slashed by a feminist poet, finds his secretary is a better writer than he is, suspects his wife is having an affair, threatens wild fowl, and confronts his father. 75,000 first printing. Tour.

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y Devereaux, Jr., spiritually suited to playing left field but forced by a bad hamstring to try first base, is the unlikely chairman of the English department at West Central Pennsylvania University. Over the course of a single convoluted week, he threatens to execute a duck, has his nose slashed by a feminist poet, discovers that his secretary writes better fiction than he does, suspects his wife of having an affair with his dean, and finally confronts his philandering elderly father, the one-time king of American Literary Theory, at an abandoned amusement park.

Such is the canvas of Richard Russo's Straight Man, a novel of surpassing wit, poignancy, and insight. As he established in his previous books -- Mohawk, The Risk Pool, and Nobody's Fool -- Russo is unique among contemporary authors for his ability to flawlessly capture the soul of the wise guy and the heart of a difficult parent. In Hank Devereaux, Russo has created a hero whos

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• Verlag: Random House USA Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679432469
• ISBN 13: 9780679432463
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 391