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The Whore's Child: And Other Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) Book
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Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling Empire Fallsâ??also named the yearâ??s best novel by Timeâ??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 newcomersâ??as to all Russoâ??s charactersâ??almost despite ourselves. A jaded Hollywood moviemaker uncovers a decades-old flame he never knew heâ??d harbored. A precocious fifth grader puzzles over life, love and baseball as he watches his parentsâ?? 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 narratorâ??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 â??there is a big, wry heart beating at the center of Russoâ??s fictionâ? (The New Yorker).
- 0375411682
- 9780375411687
- Richard Russo
- 1 July 2002
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Hardcover (Book)
- 240
- 1st
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