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Bridge of Sighs
Richard Russo
Knopf, 2007
Second only to Empire Falls
I love Richard Russo's work. I laughed out loud at Straight Man. I started out pursuing a career in Academia and contrasted the hysterical vision of that world with 'Castalia', Hesse's idyllic world of pure academe.
Empire Falls is to date the greatest 21st century ...
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Bottom of the Ninth: Great Contemporary Baseball Short Stories (Writing Baseball)
John McNally
Southern Illinois University Press, 2003
Fiction and Baseball - A Perfect Pairing
In this marvelous anthology of short stories about baseball, editor John McNally has assembled the fiction of contemporary writers, from Patricia Highsmith to André Dubus to Stuart Dybek, who share a fascination with the game and its influence on those who play it. ...
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Empire Falls
Richard Russo
Vintage, 2002
Touching and Poignant--Read it!!!
Empire Falls is a wonderful book that succeeds on so many levels.
The characters are well-developed and fully fleshed out. Richard Russo does an excellent job of presenting the interior monologue of the various characters. This allows us insight to each ...
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Straight Man: A Novel
Richard Russo
Vintage, 1998
Funny...
William Henry Devereaux Jr., approaching 50, is the English chair of English at small town West Central Pennsylvania University. Budget cuts lead to fear of layoffs among the tenured university staff. This is one of the funniest serious novels that I have read where ...
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Nobody's Fool
Richard Russo
Vintage, 1994
One of my all time favorites
I read this on the beach in Ixtapa. People had to have thought I had lost my mind, as I sometimes laughed so hard I cried. But, of course, the book is so much more than funny - it is a totally rounded book with off-beat, but believable characters.
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The Collected Stories of Richard Yates
Richard Yates
Picador, 2002
The dark side of normal.
Readers unfamiliar with Richard Yates can do much worse than to begin with this wonderful collection of stories. I believe that the Collected Stories will stand next to Revolutionary Road as the two best examples of his work.
Yates is absolutely unflinching in his ...
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The Risk Pool
Richard Russo
Vintage, 1994
Real Life ala Russo
I cannot begin to heap enough praise on the writing of Richard Russo. His look at life through the eyes of child forced into adulthood by his parents' economic and emotional shortcomings is a masterpiece. His sense of humor and pathos is wonderful and you'll find ...
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A Healing Touch: True Stories of Life, Death, and Hospice
Down East Books, 2008
A Healing Touch inspires and conveys Hope!
If you are looking for a book that offers hope, inspiration, some tears, lots of smiles, and then leaves you wanting more, this is the book for you. A Healing Touch is a collection of six stories, and though written about people who live in Maine, they could be about ...
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Mohawk
Richard Russo
Vintage, 1994
Lost Opportunities
In the opening the setting is the Mohawk Grill. Its successor establishment is redrawn for the reader near the conclusion, providing a wonderful framing device for the novel. Wild Bill is a patron and a charitable recipient. Harry Saunders is the owner of the grill. ...
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The Whore's Child: Stories
Richard Russo
Vintage, 2003
Excellent Short Stories with Believable Characters
"The Whore's Child" is an unbelievably touching collection of short stories that showcase Richard Russo's ability to portray various characters as vulnerable, human and sympathetic. The title story is about an elderly nun that enters a creative writing class and ...
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Unto Leviathan
Richard Paul Russo
Orbit, 2003
Science fiction as it should be.
This is a story written in the first person and written from the perspective of Bartolomeo, a man who is a misfit amongst the inhabitants of The Argonos, a massive spaceship that is trawling the galaxy in search of new life. Generations of humans have been raised on ...
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The Pickwick Papers (Modern Library Classics)
Charles Dickens
Modern Library, 2003
Travel the cities and towns of England with Mr. Pickwick and the Pickwikians in this hilarious comic masterpiece by young Dicken
A series of sporting prints was about to be published. The artist Robert Seymour had been hired. Now it was needed that an author be hired to add his prose to the series of prints. Charles Dickens became that author and literature has never been the same! The artist ...
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The Rosetta Codex
Richard Paul Russo
Ace Trade, 2005
The Most Enjoyable Sci-Fi Book I've Read in a Long Time
Just finished reading this book and I have to say it was one of the most enjoyable sci-fi reads I've had in a long time. Yes, it's low-key, less on gadgets and more on world- and character-building, but I could not put it down. One of those books I looked forward to ...
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Carlucci 3-in1
Richard Paul Russo
Ace Trade, 2003
Cyberpunk - the real thing
Cyberpunk genre has a lot of fantasy. This trio of books doesn't - it has a very probable reality. Grittier than any other cyberpunk you'll find (Gibson, Sterling, Stephenson) it doesn't pull punches to give you a warm fuzzy. What's going on in the real world now - ...
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Bridge of Sighs
Richard Russo
Random House Uk Ltd, 2007
Second only to Empire Falls
I love Richard Russo's work. I laughed out loud at Straight Man. I started out pursuing a career in Academia and contrasted the hysterical vision of that world with 'Castalia', Hesse's idyllic world of pure academe.
Empire Falls is to date the greatest 21st century ...
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