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His newest book, everybodys fool, brings back the wonderfully likeable characters and locale of his earlier novel nobodys fool. Richard russo was born july 15, 1949, in johnstown and grew up in gloversville, new york. Risk pool, paperback by russo, richard, isbn 0679753834, isbn 9780679753834, brand new, free shipping in the us an adolescent growing up in a small, declining, workingclass town is pulled back and forth between his gloomy, romantic mother and his delinquent father, who separated soon after his birth. Novelist richard russo is renowned for his depiction of blue collar life in abandoned mill towns in upstate new york and northern new england, believed to be modeled after the city he grew up in, gloversville, new york.
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This is the fictional upstate new york setting of his 1993 novel, nobodys fool, and its hardliving, downonhisluck protagonist, sully. The risk pool richard russo a moving and profound tale of family life in upstate new york. He is regarded by many leading critics as the most important writer about main st. The risk pool book the seattle public library bibliocommons. Ned hall tells the story of his father sam, who is at the very. Richard paul russo frank carlucci 02 carluccis edge. The risk pool is one of richard russos earlier novels and shines with russos subtle style.
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