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Book Description: Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his bestselling Empire Falls also named the year's best novel by Time Richard Russo now focuses, in his first book of short fiction, on a fresh and fascinating range of human behavior. With a fluency of tone that will surprise even his devoted readers, he captures both bewildering horror and heartrending tenderness with an absorbing, compassionate authority.We warm to these newcomers as to all Russo's characters almost despite ourselves. A jaded Hollywood moviemaker uncovers a decades old flame he never knew he'd harbored. A precocious fifth grader puzzles over life, love and baseball as lie watches his parents' marriage dissolve. Another child is forced into a harrowing crosscountry escape whose actual purpose lie learns only after the fact. An elderly couple rediscovers the power. and the misery. of their relationship during a long awaited retreat to a resort island. And in the title story, a septuagenarian min invades the narrator's college writing workshop with an incredible saga.A masterful novelist here extends his versatility and accomplishment, in a collection that demonstrates yet again that 'there is a big, wry heart beating at the center of Russo's fiction' (The New Yorker).Performed by the author.

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