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Bridge of Sighs
Richard Russo
In the small, economically gutted town of Thomaston, N.Y., three friends and lovers, Lou C. Lynch (nicknamed "Lucy"), Bobby Marconi, and Sarah Berg, struggle with the emotional desolation...... read more
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That Old Cape Magic
Richard Russo
With his father's ashes in an urn in his trunk, Griffin drives to Cape Cod for the wedding of his daughter's friend, a trip that back memories of his childhood summers at the cape,...... read more
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Empire Falls
Richard Russo
In Richard Russo's lengthy fifth novel--this one set in a small Maine town--the Empire Grill provides the focus for the town's inhabitants, who include Miles Roby, who manages the...... read more
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Straight Man
Richard Russo
A comic novel about a middle-aged novelist and teacher of creative writing at a Pennsylvania college ("the shallow end of the academic pool"), whose failures and cynicism threaten...... read more
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Mohawk
Richard Russo
Dallas Younger, a star athlete in high school, has fallen on hard times. His ex-wife Annie is locked in battle over her sick father's care. And Randall, their son, is learning that...... read more
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Nobody's Fool
Richard Russo
In North Bath, a down-at-the-heels town in upstate New York which is not unlike the Mohawk of Russo's two previous novels, Sully must come to terms with his estranged son and his own past. read more
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The Risk Pool
Richard Russo
The story of Ned Hall, growing up in Mohawk, New York, and of his estranged parents: Sam, a man of outrageously bad habits, and Jinny, his unstable mother. Ned veers between allegiances...... read more
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A Healing Touch
Richard Russo
A Pulitzer - Prize winning writer and five other authors recount end - of - life moments that cover a wide spectrum of human experience in a study that proves that the close of life...... read more
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