Ричард Руссо

Richard Russo, at the very top of his game, now returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and the characters who made Nobody’s Fool (1993) a “confident, assured novel [that] sweeps the reader up,” according to the San Francisco Chronicle back then. “Simple as family love, yet nearly as complicated.” Or, as The Boston Globe put it, “a big, rambunctious novel with endless riffs and unstoppable hum...

№61, Декабрь 2010

Mohawk, New York, is one of those small towns that lie almost entirely on the wrong side of the tracks. Its citizens, too, have fallen on hard times. Dallas Younger, a star athlete in high school, now drifts from tavern to poker game, losing money, and, inevitably, another set of false teeth. His ex-wife, Anne, is stuck in a losing battle with her mother over the care of her sick father. And their...

A wonderfully fun and perceptive novel in the traditions of Thornton Wilder and Anne Tyler, The Risk Pool is set in Mohawk, New York, where Ned Hall is doing his best to grow up, even though neither of his estranged parents can properly be called adult. His father, Sam, cultivates bad habits so assiduously that he is stuck at the bottom of his auto insurance risk pool. His mother, Jenny, is slo...

After eight commanding works of fiction, the Pulitzer Prize winner now turns to memoir in a hilarious, moving, and always surprising account of his life, his parents, and the upstate New York town they all struggled variously to escape. Anyone familiar with Richard Russo's acclaimed novels will recognize Gloversville once famous for producing that eponymous product and anything else made of leath...

Майлз Роби двадцать лет готовит бургеры в “Имперском гриле”, эта работа стоила ему высшего образования и изрядной доли самоуважения. Майлз – хороший парень, но в его характере есть один трагический изъян – он не способен на решительные действия. И его доброту порой не отличить от готовности плыть по течению. Вот только течения в городке Эмпайр Фоллз весьма затейливы. Даже река Нокс тут делает петл...

Divorced from his own wife and carrying on halfheartedly with another man's, saddled with a bum knee and friends who make enemies redundant, Sully now has one new problem to cope with: a long-estranged son who is in imminent danger of following in his father's footsteps. With its sly and uproarious humor and a heart that embraces humanity's follies as well as its triumphs, Nobody�...

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Веселая и честная, сострадательная и остроумная история длиной в одну невозможную неделю, случившуюся в жизни Хэнка Деверо. С неохотой и против собственной природы Уильям Генри Деверо Младший, предпочитающий, чтобы его звали запросто Хэнк, руководит английской кафедрой в захудалом колледже где-то в ржавом поясе Пенсильвании. Сам Хэнк по натуре наблюдатель и анархист, но кафедра стремительно развал...

Новый роман пулитцеровского лауреата, автора «Эмпайр Фоллз» и «Непосредственного человека», завораживающая история о прочных, однако запутанных узах дружбы. Погожим сентябрьским днём на острове Мартас-Виньярд собираются трое старых школьных друзей. Что в их юности, что в наши дни более непохожих людей не придумаешь: Линкольн — торговец коммерческой недвижимостью, Тедди — независимый христианский к...