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- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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ZIN Product Number: 10085069
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Edition: 1ST
Publisher: Knopf Alfred A
ISBN: 0375411682
Release Date: Jan 7, 1998
Average Reader Review:    (Based on 3 reviews.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling Empire Falls—also named the year's best novel by Time—Richard Russo now focuses, in his first book of short fiction, on a fresh and fascinating range of human behavior. With a fluency of tone that will surprise even his devoted readers, he captures both bewildering horror and heartrending tenderness with an absorbing, compassionate authority.
We warm to these newcomers—as to all Russo's characters—almost despite ourselves. A jaded Hollywood moviemaker uncovers a decades-old flame he never knew he'd harbored. A precocious fifth grader puzzles over life, love and baseball as he watches his parents' marriage dissolve. Another child is forced into a harrowing cross-country escape whose actual purpose he learns only after the fact. An elderly couple rediscovers the power, and the misery, of their relationship during a long-awaited retreat to a resort island. And in the title story, a septuagenarian nun invades the narrator's college writing workshop with an incredible saga.
About the Author: Richard Russo lives in coastal Maine with his wife and their two daughters.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 3 Average Rating:
Half & Half
-- Brandy, a person who loves music and books, July 15, 2002
Fey Satisfaction
-- Erik, schizophrenic. So?, August 9, 2002
Also Recommended: American Falls - Barry Gifford, You Are Not a Stranger Here - Adam Haslett, Half the House - Richard Hoffman
This book is horrible!
-- Julie, an avid reader, July 29, 2002
Also Recommended: I would recommend Beach House by James Patterson as a good summer book.
| |  | | | | Acknowledgments | | | The Whore's Child | 3 | | Monhegan Light | 25 | | The Farther You Go | 55 | | Joy Ride | 73 | | Buoyancy | 113 | | Poison | 145 | | The Mysteries of Linwood Hart | 171 |
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