This dazzling collection of four stories features characters bound together by their parallel moments of reckoning with their pastsâand proves the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls is also a master of the short story.Â
âBeautifulâĶ. Will abruptly break your heart.â âThe New York Times
The characters in these four expansive stories are a departure from the blue-collar denizens that populate so many of Richard Russoâs novels. In âHorseman,â a young professor confronts an undergraduate plagiaristâas well as her own regrets. In âIntervention,â a realtor facing a serious medical prognosis finds himself in his late fatherâs shadow. âVoiceâ gives us a semiretired academic who is conned by his estranged brother into joining a group tour of the Venice Biennale. And âMilton and Marcusâ takes us into a lapsed novelistâs attempt to rekindle his screenwriting careerâa career that depends wholly, at a crucial moment, on two Hollywood icons (one living, one dead).Â
Look for Richard Russo's new book, Somebody's Fool, coming soon.