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