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Availability:In StockContributor:Richard RussoPublish date:5/13/2025Pages:208
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780593802168ISBN-10:593802160UPC:9780593802168Book Category:Literary Collections, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Essays, Memoirs, Literary FiguresSize:8.20 x 5.80 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCW4H01V13
A marvelous new essay collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Somebody's Fool and The Destiny Thief

Life and Art--these are the twin subjects considered in Richard Russo's twelve masterful new essays--how they inform each other and how the stories we tell ourselves about both shape our understanding of the world around us.

In "The Lives of Others," he reflects on the implacable fact that writers use people, insisting that what matters, in the end, is how and for what purpose. How do you bridge the gap between what you know and what you don't, and sometimes can't, know? Why tell a story in the first place? What we don't understand, Russo opines, is in fact the very thing that beckons to us. In "Stiff Neck," he writes of the exasperating fault lines exposed within his own family as his wife's sister and her husband--proudly unvaccinated--develop COVID. In "Triage," he details with heartbreaking vividness the terror of seeing his seven-year-old grandson in critical condition. And in "Ghosts," he revisits Gloversville, the town that gave rise to the now-legendary fictional town of North Bath, and confronts the specter of its richly populated past and its ghostly present.

Sharp, tender, extraordinarily intimate reflections on work, culture, love, and family from one of the great writers of our time.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780593802168ISBN-10:593802160UPC:9780593802168Book Category:Literary Collections, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Essays, Memoirs, Literary FiguresSize:8.20 x 5.80 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCW4H01V13
RICHARD RUSSO is the author of nine novels, most recently Somebody's Fool, Chances Are . . ., Everybody's Fool, and That Old Cape Magic; two collections of stories; and the memoir Elsewhere. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which, like Nobody's Fool, won multiple awards for its screen adaptation, and in 2023 his novel Straight Man was adapted into the television series Lucky Hank. In 2017 he received France's Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine. He lives in Port­land, ME.
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