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Synopsis
One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year-old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college in the 1960s. They couldn't have been more different then, or even today - Lincoln's a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press publisher and Mickey an ageing musician. But each man holds his own secrets, in addition to the monumental mystery that none of them has ever stopped puzzling over since 1971: the disappearance of their friend Jacy. Now, decades later, the distant past interrupts the present as the truth about what happened to Jacy finally emerges, forcing the men to reconsider everything they thought they knew about each other.
Shot through with Russo's trademark comedy and humanity, Chances Are also introduces a new level of suspense and menace that will quicken the reader's heartbeat throughout this absorbing saga of how friendship's bonds are every bit as constricting and rewarding as those of family.
For both longtime fans and lucky newcomers, Chances Are is a stunning demonstration of a highly-acclaimed author deepening and expanding his remarkable body of work.
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...chances are awfully good that you'll lap up this gripping, wise, and wonderful summer treat., Boston Globe
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Russo balances suspense with comedy in this gripping tale., Time
Richard Russo is often compared to Dickens, to whom he clearly owes a debt, but the ghost hovering over his fabulous new novel, Chances Are, feels more like Sam Shepard...Next to Colson Whitehead's new book, there's not a better paced summer read in 2019. -- John Freeman, Literary Hub
...blends everything we love about this author with something new...Vintage Russo...No one understands men better than Russo, and no one is more eloquent in explaining how they think, suffer and love., Kirkus (starred review)
Russo's hallmark themes - the intricacy of male friendships, one-sided love, the collision of the past with the present - are on full display, New York Times
...a brisk story with memorable characters and smart things to say about loss and missed opportunities., Minneapolis Star Tribune
...there's heart and beauty on every page., USA Today
Richard Russo can write like Edith Wharton leavened with a touch of David Lodge., The Economist
A writer of great comedy and warmth, Russo's living proof that a book can be profound and wise without aiming straight into darkness., USA Today
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
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Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Russo's first standalone novel in a decade is a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship.
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- PublisherAllen & Unwin
- Publication date2019
- ISBN 10 1911630369
- ISBN 13 9781911630364
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages320
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