Mohawk

Russo, Richard, and Fisketjon, Gary (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0375412867 / ISBN 13: 9780375412868

Published by Knopf Publishing Group, New York, NY, 2001

About this Item

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 317 p. Audience: General/trade. Fine in fine dust jacket. excellent in excellent jacket, first hardcover printing, as new.

Seller Inventory # Alibris.0024220

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mohawk
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375412867
• ISBN 13: 9780375412868
• Binding: Hard cover
• Edition: First edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

About this title

Synopsis

Originally published in 1986 in the Vintage Contemporaries paperback series—and reissued now in hardcover alongside his masterful new novel, Empire Falls—Richard Russo’s Mohawk remains today as it was described then: A first novel with all the assurance of a mature writer at the peak of form and ambition, Mohawk is set in upstate New York and chronicles over a dozen lives in a leather town, long after the tanneries have started closing down. Ranging over three generations—and clustered mainly in two clans, the Grouses and the Gaffneys—these remarkably various lives share only the common human dilemmas and the awesome physical and emotional presence of Mohawk itself.

For this is a town like Winesburg, Ohio or Our Town, in our time, that encompasses a plethora of characters, events and mysteries. At once honestly tragic and sharply, genuinely funny, Mohawk captures life, then affirms it.

About the Author

Richard Russo in 1986. His novels The Risk Pool, Nobody’s Fool and Straight Man are available in Vintage paperback. He now lives in coastal Maine with his wife and their two daughters.