The Whore's Child: Stories

To this irresistible debut collection of short stories, Richard Russo brings the same bittersweet wit, deep knowledge...
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Author: Richard Russo
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The Whore's Child: Stories by Russo, Richard

The Whore's Child: Stories

$38.23

The Whore's Child: Stories

$38.23
Author: Richard Russo
Format: Paperback
Language: English
To this irresistible debut collection of short stories, Richard Russo brings the same bittersweet wit, deep knowledge of human nature, and spellbinding narrative gifts that distinguish his best-selling novels. His themes are the imperfect bargains of marriage; the discoveries and disillusionments of childhood;the unwinnable battles men and women insist on fighting with the past.

A cynical Hollywood moviemaker confronts his dead wife's lover and abruptly realizes the depth of his own passion. As his parents' marriage disintegrates, a precocious fifth-grader distracts himself with meditations on baseball, spaghetti, and his place in the universe. And in the title story, an elderly nun enters a college creative writing class and plays havoc with its tidy notions of fact and fiction. The Whore's Child is further proof that Russo is one of the finest writers we have, unsparingly truthful yet hugely compassionate and capable of creating characters real that they seem to step off the page.

Author: Richard Russo
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07/08/2003
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.26w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780375726019


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 07/06/2003 pg. 24
Booksense '76 Jly/Aug 2003 07/01/2003 pg. 1

About the Author
Richard Russo is the author of eight novels; two collections of stories; and Elsewhere, a memoir. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which like Nobody's Fool was adapted to film, in a multiple-award-winning HBO miniseries.

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