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Empire Falls: A Novel
by Richard Russo Powells.com Staff Pick In lieu of the driving narrative voice of Straight Man, Empire Falls delves into a large cast of strong characters who will live on in the reader's mind long after the novel proper has ended. Russo's sprawling Pulitzer Prize winner impresses on many...
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Straight Man: A Novel
by Richard Russo Powells.com Staff Pick Blame the Gothic romantic deep inside me (buried alive, in a coffin), but I've long had a soft spot for the famous evening of June 16, 1816, in which Lord Byron read a book of German ghost stories to guests at his home in Lake Geneva, Switzerland, then...
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The Risk Pool
by Richard Russo Publisher Comments 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....
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The Whore's Child: And Other Stories
by Richard Russo Powells.com Staff Pick The only book of short stories I can recall reading cover-to-cover. Russo's skill with characters is astounding: he creates a strong, memorable voice for each one, and within a handful of sentences manages to draw their greatest strengths for us...
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The Stories of John Cheever
by John Cheever Powells.com Staff Pick "I finished ['The Swimmer'] remarkably satisfied, but piqued, and randomly began to consume the stories one after another. This collection contains pieces spanning more than thirty years of Cheever's career. He writes old-fashioned stories with dateless...
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Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
by Steven Millhauser Publisher Comments Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his fathers cigar store. In the course of his restless young manhood, he makes a swift and eventful rise to the top, accompanied by two sisters one a dreamlike shadow, the other a...
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She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders
by Jennifer Finney Boylan Publisher Comments The provocative bestseller She's Not There is the winning, utterly surprising story of a person changing genders. By turns hilarious and deeply moving, Jennifer Finney Boylan explores the territory that lies between men and women, examines changing...
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Nobody's Fool
by Richard Russo Powells.com Staff Pick Russo is wickedly funny. Between this book and Straight Man, Russo has become one of my favorite writers. In Nobody's Fool he creates a world I didn't want to leave even though it takes place in a town that's dying, and is filled with a host...
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The Collected Stories of Richard Yates
by Richard Yates Publisher Comments Now in paperback, Yates' short fiction is collected in a single volume, featuring the stories of his classic works "Eleven Kinds of Loneliness" and "Liars in Love, " plus nine new stories....
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Empire Falls (HBO Tie-In)
by Richard Russo Powells.com Staff Pick In lieu of the driving narrative voice of Straight Man, Empire Falls delves into a large cast of strong characters who will live on in the reader's mind long after the novel proper has ended. Russo's sprawling Pulitzer Prize winner impresses on many...
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Winesburg, Ohio (Modern Library)
by Sherwood Anderson Publisher Comments Before Raymond Carver, John Cheever, and Richard Ford, there was Sherwood Anderson, who, with Winesburg, Ohio, charted a new direction in American fiction evoking with lyrical simplicity quiet moments of epiphany in the lives of ordinary men and...
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Maine: The Seasons
by Terrell S. Lester and Ann Beattie and Richard Ford and Elizabeth Strout and Richard Russo Publisher Comments Maine attracts 11 million visitors a year. Terrell S. Lester's magnificent full-color photographs celebrate the state in all its glory, in all four seasons. With essays by Ann Beattie, Richard Ford, Richard Russo, and Elizabeth Strout. The perfect...
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Mohawk
by Richard Russo Publisher Comments Originally published in 1986 in the Vintage Contemporaries paperback series—and reissued now in hardcover alongside his masterful new novel, Empire Falls—Richard Russo’s Mohawk remains today as it was described then: A first novel with...
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Our Town a Play in Three Acts
by Thornton Wilder Publisher Comments First produced and published in 1938, this Pulitzer Prize--winning drama of life in the small village of Grover's Corners has become an American classic and is Thornton Wilder's most renowned and most frequently performed play....
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