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Richard Russo Straight Man (Paperback) Vintage Contemporaries
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- Book Title
- Straight Man : a Novel
- Publication Name
- Straight Man
- Title
- Straight Man
- Subtitle
- A Novel
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0375701907
- EAN
- 9780375701900
- ISBN
- 9780375701900
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Date
- 09/06/1998
- Release Year
- 1998
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Item Width
- 5.1in
- Item Weight
- 10.4 Oz
- Series
- Vintage Contemporaries
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Topic
- Small Town & Rural, Literary, Humorous / General
- Number of Pages
- 416 Pages
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Hilarious and true-to-life, witty, compassionate, and impossible to put down, Straight Man follows Hank Devereaux through one very bad week in this novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls . * Now the AMC Original Series Lucky Hank. William Henry Devereaux, Jr., is the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt. Devereaux's reluctance is partly rooted in his character--he is a born anarchist--and partly in the fact that his department is more savagely divided than the Balkans. In the course of a single week, Devereaux will have his nose mangled by an angry colleague, imagine his wife is having an affair with his dean, wonder if a curvaceous adjunct is trying to seduce him with peach pits, and threaten to execute a goose on local television. All this while coming to terms with his philandering father, the dereliction of his youthful promise, and the ominous failure of certain vital body functions. In short, Straight Man is classic Russo--side-splitting, poignant, compassionate, and unforgettable. Look for Richard Russo's new book, Somebody's Fool , coming soon.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375701907
ISBN-13
9780375701900
eBay Product ID (ePID)
289902
Product Key Features
Book Title
Straight Man : a Novel
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Small Town & Rural, Literary, Humorous / General
Publication Year
1998
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
10.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3568.U812s77 1997
Reviews
"The funniest serious novel I have read since--well, maybe since Portnoy's Complaint ." -- Tom De Haven, The New York Times Book Review "There is a big, wry heart beating at the center of Russo's fiction." -- The New Yorker "[Russo] skewers academic pretensions and infighting with mad abandon...in a clear and muscular prose that is a pleasaure to read....I had to stop often to guffaw, gasp, wheeze, and wipe away my tears." -- Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times "Bursting with humor and insight." -- USA Today
Copyright Date
1997
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
96-048578
Series
Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
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