Richard Russo
1) Trajectory
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In "Horseman," a tenured professor confronts a young plagiarist as well as her own weaknesses as the Thanksgiving holiday approaches--"And after that, who knew?" In "Intervention," a realtor facing an ominous medical prognosis finds himself in his father's shadow while he presses forward... or not. In "Voice," a semi-retired English professor is conned by his increasingly estranged brother into coming along on a group tour of the Biennale, fleeing...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A best-selling and beloved author, at the very top of his game, now returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and the characters who made Nobody's Fool, his third novel, his first great success. The irresistible Sully, who in the intervening years has come by some unexpected good fortune, is now staring down a VA cardiologist's estimate that he only has a year or two left, and he's busy as hell keeping the news from the most important people in...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Writing professor William Henry Devereaux Jr. tries not to let the absurdities of academia get him down, but life becomes a bit hard to handle when he has his nose slashed by a feminist colleague, he is accused of murdering a goose, he suspects his wife of having an affair, and he confronts his long-lost father.
8) Chances are
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a new revelation: a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship. One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. They couldn't have been more different then, or even today--Lincoln's a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press...
10) Somebody's fool
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and to the characters that captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of readers in his beloved best sellers Nobody's Fool and Everybody's Fool"--
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
These three travel memoirs by the beloved author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn capture nineteenth-century life in America and beyond. Life on the Mississippi : Before Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, he trained to be a Mississippi River steamboat pilot. Here Twain recounts his apprenticeship under legendary captain Horace Bixby, the dramatic fates of riverboat gamblers, and much more. Years later, as a passenger on a voyage from St. Louis...
13) Brush with fate
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of how a priceless Vermeer painting came to be hanging in the home of lowly college professor Cornelius Engelbrecht.
14) Keeping mum
Publisher
Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Language
English
Description
An absent-minded vicar of a rural parish is so distracted by the pressures of his job that he fails to notice his wife's dalliance with her brash golf instructor, his daughter's parade of new boyfriends, and his young son's regular trouncing by the school's bullies. Enter their new housekeeper, Grace, the answer to the family's prayers. Grace is a sweet old lady with her own distinctive definition of cleaning house, with an unusual way of solving...
15) Empire Falls
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A blue-collar restauranteur struggles to keep his family, business, and community together.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
To everyone's surprise, fifty-five years after the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee has published another novel. Go Set a Watchman was written before Lee's beloved masterpiece, as director Mary McDonagh Murphy explains in this update of her 2011 documentary Hey, Boo: Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird. Murphy's film, Harper Lee: From Mockingbird to Watchman, sifts through the facts and speculation surrounding Lee and both her novels,...