ISBN: 9780394565279 - the risk pool (13 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Fair. A wonderfully funny, perceptive novel 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 adult. 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. In the traditions of Thornton Wilder and Anne Tyler, The Risk Pool was hailed by The New York Times as .superbly original and maliciously funny. Russo proves himself a master at evoking the sights, feelings, and smells of a town.…

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. 1st ed. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. Russo's second book and first hardcover, a novel set-in upstate New York. Fine in near fine price-clipped dustjacket with a one-inch closed tear near top spine fold.

Hardcover. dj. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 479 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Dark blue spine with cream and white lettering. Dust jacket is protected with a mylar covering, price cut. Mild general shelf wear. Minor bumping and scuffing to spine and dust jacket corners. Sagging to text block. Light foxing to text block. Signed flat by Russo on the title page. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office, Case #5. 1409984. FP New Rockville Stock. Signed.…

Hardcover. dj. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 479 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Dark blue spine with cream and white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price is uncut "$19.95", and has mild shelving wear. Boards have mild age-toning along the head and tail edges, mild wear along the edges, and mild wear along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has stains on the end-pages, pastedowns, and edges, mild wear along the edges, and light foxing along the head and fore edges. Signed flat by Richard Russo on the title page. Shelved in Room Z. 1393182. Special Collections - Upstairs. Signed.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine first edition in a fine dust jacket. First Edition and complete row of numbers on the copyright page.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. New York: Random House [1988]. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. Fine/fine. Signed by author on title page. He has signed his name only, without inscription. A nice clean tight copy of his most difficult book to find. [c5]. Signed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Near Fine. First edition. Slightly cocked spine and some toning on the boards thus very good in a near fine dust jacket with slightly lifting lamination and rubbing. Inscribed by the author.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Soiling on the page edges else near fine in a near fine dustwrapper with slight edgewear. Signed by the author.