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Book Title
Risk Pool
Publication Name
The Risk Pool
Title
The Risk Pool
Author
Richard Russo
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
0679753834
EAN
9780679753834
ISBN
9780679753834
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Genre
Fiction
Release Date
12/04/1994
Release Year
1994
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
1.1in
Item Length
7.9in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
14.3 Oz
Series
Vintage Contemporaries
Publication Year
1994
Topic
Family Life, General, Literary, Coming of Age
Number of Pages
496 Pages

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls comes a wonderfully funny novel set in Mohawk, New York, where Ned Hall is doing his best to grow up, even though neither of his estranged parents can properly be called adult. "Superbly original and maliciously funny." -- The New York Times Book Review His father, Sam, cultivates bad habits so assiduously that he is stuck at the bottom of his auto insurance risk pool. His mother, Jenny, is slowly going crazy from resentment at a husband who refuses either to stay or to stay away. As Ned veers between allegiances to these grossly inadequate role models, Richard Russo gives us a book that overflows with outsized characters and outlandish predicaments and whose vision of family is at once irreverent and unexpectedly moving. Look for Richard Russo's new book, Somebody's Fool , coming soon.

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679753834
ISBN-13
9780679753834
eBay Product ID (ePID)
740596

Product Key Features

Book Title
Risk Pool
Author
Richard Russo
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Family Life, General, Literary, Coming of Age
Publication Year
1994
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
496 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
7.9in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
14.3 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Ps3568.U812
Reviews
"Russo proves himself a master at evoking the sights, feelings, and smells of a town. . . . [The Risk Pool is] superbly original and maliciously funny." --The New York Times Book Review "A fine, closely observed novel . . . Richard Russo writes with such sympathy and attention to the rhythms of small-town life that he invests inarticulate lives with genuine passion. . . . [He] has succeeded in creating characters with the emotional weight of people we've known in real life." --The New York Times "Weighted with wonderful detail . . . a rich, anecdotal novel brimming with the metaphorical lessons of adolescence: on pocket billiards and sexual frustration, trout fishing and serenity." --Boston Globe "Richard Russo has it just perfect in The Risk Pool. A gem of a novel." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch From the Trade Paperback edition., "Russo proves himself a master at evoking the sights, feelings, and smells of a town. . . . [ The Risk Pool is] superbly original and maliciously funny." -- The New York Times Book Review "A fine, closely observed novel . . . Richard Russo writes with such sympathy and attention to the rhythms of small-town life that he invests inarticulate lives with genuine passion. . . . [He] has succeeded in creating characters with the emotional weight of people we've known in real life." -- The New York Times "Weighted with wonderful detail . . . a rich, anecdotal novel brimming with the metaphorical lessons of adolescence: on pocket billiards and sexual frustration, trout fishing and serenity." -- Boston Globe "Richard Russo has it just perfect in The Risk Pool . A gem of a novel." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "Russo proves himself a master at evoking the sights, feelings, and smells of a town. . . . [The Risk Poolis] superbly original and maliciously funny." --The New York Times Book Review "A fine, closely observed novel . . . Richard Russo writes with such sympathy and attention to the rhythms of small-town life that he invests inarticulate lives with genuine passion. . . . [He] has succeeded in creating characters with the emotional weight of people we've known in real life." --The New York Times "Weighted with wonderful detail . . . a rich, anecdotal novel brimming with the metaphorical lessons of adolescence: on pocket billiards and sexual frustration, trout fishing and serenity." --Boston Globe "Richard Russo has it just perfect inThe Risk Pool. A gem of a novel." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Lccn
89-040075
Dewey Decimal
813.54
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Dewey Edition
20

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  • by nwin2509
    Apr 21, 2020

    great book

    Really a good book

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  • by skip30263
    Nov 06, 2013

    A great book for anyone that grew up in a blue collar new england town.

    You don't read Richard Russo for the story, because there isn't much of one. You read him for his writing. I have no idea how he does it but I enjoyed it immensely.

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