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The Whore's Child: and Other Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)
The Whore's Child and Other Stories - Vintage Contemporaries Author:Richard Russo Richard Russo 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 chara... more »cters -- 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 he watches his parents’ marriage dissolve. Another child is forced into a harrowing cross-country escape whose actual purpose he 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 nun invades the narrator’s college writing workshop with an incredible saga.
Whore's child -- Monhegan light -- Farther you go -- Joy ride -- Buoyancy -- Poison -- Mysteries of Linwood Hart« less