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The Risk Pool by Richard Russo (1994, Paperback, Reissue) 
The Risk Pool by Richard Russo (1994, Paperback, Reissue)

 
The Risk Pool by Richard Russo (1994, Paperback, Reissue)

Author: Richard Russo
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Date: 1994-05-01
Series: Vintage Contemporaries Series
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0679753834
ISBN-13: 9780679753834
Product ID: EPID740596
Description: The story of Ned Hall, growing up in Mohawk, New York, and of his estranged parents: Sam, a man of outrageously bad habits, and Jinny, his unstable mother. Ned veers between allegiances to these inadequate role models and to Wussy, his f...
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Synopsis
The story of Ned Hall, growing up in Mohawk, New York, and of his estranged parents: Sam, a man of outrageously bad habits, and Jinny, his unstable mother. Ned veers between allegiances to these inadequate role models and to Wussy, his father's ne'er-do-well friend.

Details
Publication Date:1994-05-01
Series:Vintage Contemporaries Series
Edition Description:Reissue

Size
Height:8.0 in
Width:5.5 in
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:13.6 oz

Publisher's Note
Sweeping, humorous and greatly moving, The Risk Pool is a 30-year saga of Sam Hall, a roguish hellraiser, and of his introspective son, Ned. When Sam abandons the family, Ned vacillates between his nervous mother and his reckless father, struggling to win his father's affection.

Industry Reviews
"A great book. I fell in love with the characters in this novel as I once fell in love with the characters in 'Garp'."
book jacket - Pat Conroy

"Richard Russo has it just about perfect in 'The Risk Pool'....A gem of a novel."
Holt

"Characters with the emotional weight of people we've known in real life."
Holt

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