The Whore's Child: Stories (Vintage contemporaries) (Paperback)
$13.45 - Save $1.50 10% off - RRP $14.95 Free shipping worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Whore's Child A debut collection of short stories from Pulitzer-Prize winner Russo abounds with bittersweet humor and a deep knowledge of human nature.
Full description- Publisher: Random House Inc
- Published: 08 July 2003
- Format: Paperback 240 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Short Stories
- ISBN 13: 9780375726019 ISBN 10: 0375726012
- Sales rank: 1,073,052
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Full description for The Whore's Child
To this irresistible debut collection of short stories, Richard Russo brings the same bittersweet wit, deep knowledge of human nature, and spellbinding narrative gifts that distinguish his best-selling novels. His themes are the imperfect bargains of marriage; the discoveries and disillusionments of childhood;the unwinnable battles men and women insist on fighting with the past. A cynical Hollywood moviemaker confronts his dead wife's lover and abruptly realizes the depth of his own passion. As his parents' marriage disintegrates, a precocious fifth-grader distracts himself with meditations on baseball, spaghetti, and his place in the universe. And in the title story, an elderly nun enters a college creative writing class and plays havoc with its tidy notions of fact and fiction. The Whore's Child is further proof that Russo is one of the finest writers we have, unsparingly truthful yet hugely compassionate and capable of creating characters real that they seem to step off the page.
