The Risk Pool
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
12 April 1994
Summary
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 cra…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679753834 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0679753834 |
| Author: | Richard Russo |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 12 April 1994 |
| Weight: | 403g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 133mm x 27mm |
| Series: | Vintage Contemporaries |
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Critics Review
“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.” —The Boston Globe “Richard Russo has it just perfect in The Risk Pool. A gem of a novel.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch
About The Author
Richard Russo
RICHARD RUSSO is the author of nine novels, most recently Chances Are…,Everybody’s Fool and That Old Cape Magic; two collections of stories; and the memoir Elsewhere. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which, like Nobody’s Fool, was adapted into a multiple-award-winning miniseries; in 2017, he received France’s Grand Prix de Litterature Americaine. He lives in Portland, Maine.
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