Release Date:- 2017-05-02
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This dazzling collection of four stories features characters bound together by their parallel moments of reckoning with their pastsāand proves the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls is also a master of the short story.
āBeautifulā¦. Will abruptly break your heart.ā āThe New York Times
The characters in these four expansive stories are a departure from the blue-collar denizens that populate so many of Richard Russoās novels. In āHorseman,ā a young professor confronts an undergraduate plagiaristāas well as her own regrets. In āIntervention,ā a realtor facing a serious medical prognosis finds himself in his late fatherās shadow. āVoiceā gives us a semiretired academic who is conned by his estranged brother into joining a group tour of the Venice Biennale. And āMilton and Marcusā takes us into a lapsed novelistās attempt to rekindle his screenwriting careerāa career that depends wholly, at a crucial moment, on two Hollywood icons (one living, one dead).
Look for Richard Russo's new book, Somebody's Fool, coming soon.