The Risk Pool Paperback - 1994
by Richard Russo
Sweeping, humorous and greatly moving, The Risk Pool is a 30-year saga of Sam Hall, a roguish hellraiser, and of his introspective son, Ned. When Sam abandons the family, Ned vacillates between his nervous mother and his reckless father, struggling to win his father's affection.
First line
My father, unlike so many of the men he served with, know just what he wanted to do when the war was over.
From the jacket flap
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.
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- Title The Risk Pool
- Author Richard Russo
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reissue
- Pages 496
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York
- Date 1994-04-12
- ISBN 9780679753834 / 0679753834
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.2 x 0.9 in (20.32 x 13.21 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, City and town life - New York (State)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 89040075
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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