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During one tortuous week, Hank Devereaux, head of the English department at the state university in Railton, Pennsylvania, has his nose slashed by a feminist poet, finds his secretary is a better writer than he is, suspects his wife is having an affair, threatens wild fowl, and confronts his father. 75,000 first printing. Tour.

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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 tender' (Daily Telegraph) novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Empire Falls

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  • PublisherRandom House USA Inc
  • Publication date1997
  • ISBN 10 0679432469
  • ISBN 13 9780679432463
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages391
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