Life and Art: Essays by Russo, Richard
Life and Art: Essays by Russo, Richard

Life and Art: Essays

A marvelous new essay collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Somebody's Fool and The Destiny Thief...
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Author: Richard Russo
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Language: English
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Life and Art: Essays by Russo, Richard

Life and Art: Essays

$72.49
Life and Art: Essays by Russo, Richard

Life and Art: Essays

$72.49
Author: Richard Russo
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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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.

Author: Richard Russo
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 05/13/2025
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9780593802168
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