The Whore's Child: And Other Stories - Softcover

Russo, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0701173300 ISBN 13: 9780701173302

Verlag: Chatto & Windus, 2002

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Reseña del editor:

In this entrancing first collection of stories, a master storyteller focuses on a fresh and fascinating range of human behaviour, revealing himself as an even more versatile and accomplished writer than his acclaimed novels have shown. With a delicious wit and gentle humanity reminiscent of Anne Tyler, and an edginess that recalls Richard Ford, Russo here captures both heartrending tenderness and bewildering horror with a fluency of tone that is all his own. And, as with all Russo's characters, we warm to these newcomers almost in spite of themselves. In the title story, a septuagenarian nun resolutely invades the narrator's college writing workshop with an incredible saga; a seasoned Hollywood moviemaker uncovers a 25-year-old flame he never knew he'd harboured; a precious 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; and an elderly couple rediscover the power - and misery - of their relationship during a long-awaited retreat to a hurricane-swept resort island.

Biografía del autor:

Richard Russo lives in Camden, Maine, with his wife and two daughters. He is the author (and co-screenwriter) of Nobody's Fool which was made into a major film starring Paul Newman. Film rights to his latest novel Empire Falls have also been bought.

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• Verlag: Chatto & Windus
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0701173300
• ISBN 13: 9780701173302
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240