Best Selling Books by Richard Russo

A marvelous new essay collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Somebody''s Fool and The Destiny Thief Life and Art—these are the twin subjects considered in Richard Russo’s twelve masterful new essays—how they inform each other and how the stories we tell ourselves about both shape our understanding of the world around us. In “The Lives of Others,” he reflects on the implacable fact that writers use people, insisting that what matters, in the end, is how and for what purpose. How do you bridge the gap between what you know and what you don’t, and sometimes can’t, know? Why tell a story in the first place? What we don’t understand, Russo opines, is in fact the very thing that beckons to us. In “Stiff Neck,” he writes of the exasperating fault lines exposed within his own family as his wife’s sister and her husband—proudly unvaccinated—develop COVID. In “Triage,” he details with heartbreaking vividness the terror of seeing his seven-year-old grandson in critical condition. And in “Ghosts,” he revisits Gloversville, the town that gave rise to the now-legendary fictional town of North Bath, and confronts the specter of its richly populated past and its ghostly present. Sharp, tender, extraordinarily intimate reflections on work, culture, love, and family from one of the great writers of our time.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo unveils "Intervention," a never-before-published novella in this collection of four long stories in an uniquely formatted book (4 soft cover folios tucked inside a slipcase). Each story is individually bound and illustrated with an original piece of full-color art and gathered in a slipcase. The four stories positively crackle with Russo¿s piercing and understated insight into the lives of ordinary people.

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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.

Een jongen moet kiezen tussen een leven bij zijn vader of zijn moeder.