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Also by Richard Russo:

Elsewhere: A Memoir, November 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
That Old Cape Magic, August 2009
Hardcover
A Healing Touch, June 2008
Hardcover
Bridge of Sighs, October 2007
Hardcover
Empire Falls, May 2005
Paperback
The Whore's Child: Stories, July 2003
Paperback
Empire Falls, April 2002
Paperback
Straight Man, June 1998
Paperback
Mohawk, April 1994
Paperback
The Risk Pool, April 1994
Paperback
Nobody's Fool, April 1994
Paperback

THE WHORE'S CHILD: STORIES
By: Richard Russo

Vintage
July 2003
On Sale: July 8, 2003
240 pages
ISBN: 0375726012
EAN: 9780375726019
Paperback
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Fiction

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.