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"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house."
- Henry Ward Beecher
(1813 - 1887)
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ZIN Product Number: 10182128
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback
Edition: REISSUE
Publisher: Vintage Books
ISBN: 0679753834
Release Date: Jan 7, 1998
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 1 review.)
| |  | | | In Brief
This novel about life in a decaying tannery town in upstate New York is narrated by Ned Hall. Ned's father Sam "went off to fight in World War II but returned a drifter. Leaving his wife and small son at home, he would hauntthe bars and pool halls. . . . Now and then he'd appear from nowhere to take Ned with him. When Ned's mother, Jenny, {becomes mentally ill}, Ned goes to live with Sam in a dilapidated loft above the town's one department store and shares his father's roguish life." (Libr J)
| | | | From The Publisher
A wonderfully funn and perceptive novel in the traditions of Thornton Wilder and Anne Tyler, The Risk Pool is set in Mohawk, New York, where Ned Hall is doing his best to grow up, even though neither of his estranged parents can properly be called adult.
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.
| | | | Annotation
A "rich, anecdotal novel" (Boston Globe) about Ned Hall, a man trying to resolve the tug between his very different, estranged parents.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 1 Average Rating:
Funny, well written
-- A reviewer, January 9, 2002
Also Recommended: A Fine Balance
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Fiction, New York (State), City and town life, Fiction, Fiction - General, Literary
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