The Risk Pool
by Richard Russo
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- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0679753834
- ISBN 13
- 9780679753834
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Synopsis
Richard Russo grew up in Gloversville, New York, the small, mostly working-class town that has served as the prototype for his fictional Mohawk and North Bath. His parents were separated, and he recalls his father as a man who "lived a life of studied bad habits. I became of interest to him when I got old enough to follow him into the OTB and then into the bar and then into the pool hall, when I could be taken to the places he went and not interrupt the rhythm of his life." 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.
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- Bookseller
- More Than Words Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOS-V-14g-01117
- Title
- The Risk Pool
- Author
- Richard Russo
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0679753834
- ISBN 13
- 9780679753834
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1994
- LCCN
- 89040075
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