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9780394565279: The Risk Pool
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0394565274 ISBN 13: 9780394565279
Verlag: Random House Inc, 1988

Inhaltsangabe

Ned, the introspective son of the freewheeling World War II veteran Sam Hall struggles for acceptance from his father while trying to avoid adopting the same hedonistic lifestyle

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Richard Russo grew up in Gloversville, New York, the small, mostly working-class town that has served as the prototype for his fictional Mohawk and North Bath. His parents were separated, and he recalls his father as a man who "lived a life of studied bad habits. I became of interest to him when I got old enough to follow him into the OTB and then into the bar and then into the pool hall, when I could be taken to the places he went and not interrupt the rhythm of his life."<br><br>With his father, Russo worked construction jobs during his vacations from the University of Arizona, where he received his B.A. He later went on to get a master's degree and had almost earned his Ph.D. in American literature when it occurred to him that he would rather write his own novels than analyze other people's. He is the author

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y funn and perceptive novel in the traditions of Thornton Wilder and Anne Tyler, <b>The Risk Pool</b> 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 adult.<br><br>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 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, Richard 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.<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>

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Verlag
Random House Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
1988
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0394565274
ISBN 13 
9780394565279
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Auflage
1
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