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- Signed
- Hardcover
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Seller: Zed Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.Zed Books
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Condition: Used - Near fine
US$ 175.00
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First printing. 8vo. [12], [482] pp. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Slight toning to extremities of boards. Subtle rubbing to jacket. Title page signed by Richard Russo.
Seller Inventory # x09753
- Title
- The Risk Pool
- Author
- Richard Russo
- Publisher
- Random House, New York
- Publication year
- 1988
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0394565274
- ISBN 13
- 9780394565279
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Series
- Book 77 of 248: Vintage Contemporaries
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.
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"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
With his father, Russo worked construction jobs during his vacations from the University of Arizona, where he received his B.A. He later went on to get a master's degree and had almost earned his Ph.D. in American literature when it occurred to him that he would rather write his own novels than analyze other people's. He is the author of three books, Mohawk, The Risk Pool, and Nobody's Fool, which has recently been made into a feature film starring Paul Newman and Bruce Willis. Richard Russo teaches writing at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. He lives there with his wife, Barbara, and their two daughters.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
"About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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