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The Risk Pool
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The Risk Pool is a thirty-year journey through the lives of Sam Hall, a small-town gambling hellraiser, and his watchful, introspective son Ned. When Ned’s mother Jenny suffers a breakdown and retreats from her husband’s carelessness into a dream world, Ned becomes part of his father’s seedy nocturnal world, touring the town’s bars and pool halls, struggling to win Sam’s affections while avoiding his sins.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.341 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.9 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 496 |
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| Year Published | 1998-6-4 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0099276496 |
| About The Author | Richard Russo won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for his fifth novel, Empire Falls. He is also the author of Mohawk, Nobody’s Fool, Straight Man, Bridge of Sighs and That Old Cape Magic, as well as a collection of stories, The Whore’s Child. His original screenplay is the basis for Rowan Atkinson’s film Keeping Mum. He lives with his wife in Maine and in Boston. |
If Russo's books possessed only their big-hearted, endlessly revisitable characters, that would be enough. That they also possess belting story lines about broken families, comically recalcitrant pensioners, small-town decay and the indelibility of roots sometimes seems like an act of unparalleled literary generosity |
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| Other text | 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 |
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