Trajectory: Stories (Signed First Edition)

Russo, Richard

ISBN 10: 1101947721 / ISBN 13: 9781101947722

Published by Knopf, New York, 2017

About this Item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Quarter brown cloth over green paper-covered boards, with gilt spine lettering. Very Fine in a very fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on jacket flap ($25.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight, clean, unread copy. Octavo, 243 pages. Signed by Richard Russo on a special tipped-m in, otherwise blank page, on eof an unknown number of such copies specially issued by Knopf. A collection of four stories -- "Horseman," "Voice," "Intervention," and "Milton and Marcus" -- exploring characters at turning points in their lives, from professors confronting aging to screenwriters reckoning with compromise. Richard Russo (b. 1949) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2002 for "Empire Falls." His novel "Straight Man" (1997) was adapted into the AMC series Lucky Hank. This was his third collection of short fiction, published after "The Whore s Child" (2002).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Trajectory: Stories (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1101947721
• ISBN 13: 9781101947722
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Following the best-selling Everybody's Fool, a new collection of short fiction that demonstrates that Richard Russo--winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls--is also a master of this genre.

Russo's characters in these four expansive stories bear little similarity to the blue-collar citizens we're familiar with from many of his novels. In "Horseman," a professor confronts a young plagiarist as well as her own weaknesses as the Thanksgiving holiday looms closer and closer: "And after that, who knew?" In "Intervention," a realtor facing an ominous medical prognosis finds himself in his father's shadow while he presses forward--or not. In "Voice," a semiretired academic is conned by his increasingly estranged brother into coming along on a group tour of the Venice Biennale, fleeing a mortifying incident with a traumatized student back in Massachusetts but encountering further complications in the maze of Venice. And in "Milton and Marcus," a lapsed novelist struggles with his wife's illness and tries to rekindle his screenwriting career, only to be stymied by the pratfalls of that trade when he's called to an aging, iconic star's mountaintop retreat in Wyoming.

About the Author

In addition to The Whore's Child, RICHARD RUSSO is the author of nine novels, most recently the best-selling Everybody's Fool and That Old Cape Magic, and the memoir Elsewhere. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls. He lives in Portland, Maine.