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The Whore's Child: Stories
Richard Russo
Vintage
July 2003
On Sale: July 8, 2003
240 pages
ISBN: 0375726012
EAN: 9780375726019
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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.
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