Straight Man - Hardcover
The despair of his wife, the scourge of the university campus geese, Professor William Henry Devereaux Jr is a man at odds with himself and in thrall to the perversity principle. This is the comic portrait of a middle-aged man caught somewhere between cause and effect.
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"After a while you begin to wish you lived in Richard Russo's world" (Sunday Times)
"A funny and clever novel" (Times Literary Supplement)
"The author has never been funnier. It is a testament to Russo's skill and originality that Straight Man often seems as fresh as if it were the first of its sort" (Literary Review)
"Sentence by sentence Richard Russo shows that his is an eminently accomplished comic talent" (The Times)
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"A funny and clever novel" (Times Literary Supplement)
"The author has never been funnier. It is a testament to Russo's skill and originality that Straight Man often seems as fresh as if it were the first of its sort" (Literary Review)
"Sentence by sentence Richard Russo shows that his is an eminently accomplished comic talent" (The Times)
A 'funny and tender' (Daily Telegraph) novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Empire Falls
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 070116199X
- ISBN 13 9780701161996
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages400
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