The Risk Pool - Hardcover

Russo, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394565274 ISBN 13: 9780394565279

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1988

Synopsis

Ned, the introspective son of the freewheeling World War II veteran Sam Hall struggles for acceptance from his father while trying to avoid adopting the same hedonistic lifestyle

About this title

Review:

"If Russo's books possessed only their big-hearted, endlessly revisitable characters, that would be enough. That they also possess belting story lines about broken families, comically recalcitrant pensioners, small-town decay and the indelibility of roots sometimes seems like an act of unparalleled literary generosity" (Sunday Times)

"Perhaps if it was pointed out that here was a US writer who stood somewhere between Anne Tyler at her darkest and Russell Banks, with an occasional hint of Richard Ford at his least bleak, perhaps Russo would become as widely read as he deserves to be" (Irish Times)

"No one writing today catches the detail of life with such stunning accuracy" (Annie Proulx)

"Charms readers with its humour and refreshes with it's vast, Dickensian cast of characters" (Guardian)

"Russo proves himself a master at evoking the sights, feelings and smells of a town... Superbly original and maliciously funny" (New York Times Book Review)

Book Description:

The Pulitzer-prizewinning novelist's cautionary tale of failed fathers and the sons who idolise them.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0394565274
• ISBN 13: 9780394565279
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1