Trajectory Stories. /
This dazzling collection of four stories features characters bound together by their parallel moments of reckoning with their pasts{u2014}and proves the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls is also a master of the short story. 2Beautiful…. Will abruptly break your heart.3 {u20...
| Main Author: | Russo, Richard, 1949- |
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
[publisher not identified],
2017.
2017. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource. |
| Summary: |
This dazzling collection of four stories features characters bound together by their parallel moments of reckoning with their pasts{u2014}and proves the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls is also a master of the short story. 2Beautiful…. Will abruptly break your heart.3 {u2014} The New York Times The characters in these four expansive stories are a departure from the blue-collar denizens that populate so many of Richard Russo{u2019}s novels. In 2Horseman,3 a young professor confronts an undergraduate plagiarist{u2014}as well as her own regrets. In 2Intervention,3 a realtor facing a serious medical prognosis finds himself in his late father{u2019}s shadow. 2Voice3 gives us a semiretired academic who is conned by his estranged brother into joining a group tour of the Venice Biennale. And 2Milton and Marcus3 takes us into a lapsed novelist{u2019}s attempt to rekindle his screenwriting career{u2014}a career that depends wholly, at a crucial moment, on two Hollywood icons (one living, one dead). Look for Richard Russo's new book, Somebody's Fool , coming soon. |
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| Item Description: |
This dazzling collection of four stories features characters bound together by their parallel moments of reckoning with their pasts{u2014}and proves the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls is also a master of the short story. 2Beautiful…. Will abruptly break your heart.3 {u2014} The New York Times The characters in these four expansive stories are a departure from the blue-collar denizens that populate so many of Richard Russo{u2019}s novels. In 2Horseman,3 a young professor confronts an undergraduate plagiarist{u2014}as well as her own regrets. In 2Intervention,3 a realtor facing a serious medical prognosis finds himself in his late father{u2019}s shadow. 2Voice3 gives us a semiretired academic who is conned by his estranged brother into joining a group tour of the Venice Biennale. And 2Milton and Marcus3 takes us into a lapsed novelist{u2019}s attempt to rekindle his screenwriting career{u2014}a career that depends wholly, at a crucial moment, on two Hollywood icons (one living, one dead). Look for Richard Russo's new book, Somebody's Fool , coming soon. Electronic reproduction. New York : Vintage, 2017. Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource. |
| ISBN: |
9781101947739 (electronic bk) |