The Destiny Thief by Richard Russo Requirements: .MP3 reader, 208 MBOverview: In these nine essays, Richard Russo provides insight into his life as a writer, teacher, friend, and reader. From a commencement speech he gave at Colby College, to the story of how an oddly placed toilet made him reevaluate the purpose of humor in […]
Elsewhere by Richard RussoRequirements: .MP3 reader, 207 mbOverview: Jean Russo was a single mother in the 1950s, badly paid and living with her parents in Gloversville, New York, a dead-end town whose heyday as the hub of the leather-goods industry was just a distant memory. ‘You are getting out of Gloversville’ was her mantra throughout […]
Trajectory by Richard RussoRequirements: .MP3 reader, 111 MBOverview: Russo’s characters in these four expansive stories bear little similarity to the blue-collar citizens we’re familiar with from many of his novels. In “Horseman”, a professor confronts a young plagiarist as well as her own weaknesses as the Thanksgiving holiday looms closer and closer: “And after that, […]
The Whore’s Child by Richard Russo Requirements: .MP3 reader, 186 MBOverview: To this irresistible debut collection of short stories, Richard Russo brings the same bittersweet wit, deep knowledge of human nature, and spellbinding narrative gifts that distinguish his best-selling novels. His themes are the imperfect bargains of marriage; the discoveries and disillusionments of childhood; the […]
Chances Are by Richard Russo Requirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 294 mbOverview: One beautiful September day, three 66-year-old men convene on Martha’s Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college in the 1960s. They couldn’t have been more different then, or even today – Lincoln’s a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press publisher and Mickey an ageing […]
