The Risk Pool

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FICTION/LITERATURE "A fine, closely observed növel... Richárd Russo writes with such sympathy and attention to the rhythms of small-town life that he invests inarticulate lives with genuine passión____[He] has succeeded in creating characters with the emotional weight of people we've known in real life. " the new york times V wonderfully funny and perceptive növel in the traditions of Thornton Wilder and Anne TVler, the risk pool is 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 aduit. His father, Sam, cultivates bad habits so assiduously that he is stuck at the bottom of his autó 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, Richárd Russo gives us a book that overflows with outsized characters and outlandish predicaments and whose... Tovább

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FICTION/LITERATURE "A fine, closely observed növel... Richárd Russo writes with such sympathy and attention to the rhythms of small-town life that he invests inarticulate lives with genuine passión____[He] has succeeded in creating characters with the emotional weight of people we've known in real life. " the new york times V wonderfully funny and perceptive növel in the traditions of Thornton Wilder and Anne TVler, the risk pool is 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 aduit. His father, Sam, cultivates bad habits so assiduously that he is stuck at the bottom of his autó 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, Richárd 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. "Weighted with wonderful detail...a rich, anecdotal növel brimming with the metaphoricál lessons of adolescence: on pocket billiards and sexual frustration, trout fishing and serenity." -boston globe "Richárd Russo has it just perfect in the risk pool. a gem of a növel." -st. louis P o s T - D l s p A t c h Vissza