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STRAIGHT MAN - RICHARD RUSSO KARTONIERT (TB)

Hilarious and true-to-life  witty  compassionate  and impossible to put down  Straight Man
follows Hank Devereaux through one very bad week in this novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning
author Richard Russo. William Henry Devereaux  Jr.  is the reluctant chairman of the English
department of a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt. Devereaux's reluctance
is partly rooted in his character--he is a born anarchist--and partly in the fact that his
department is more savagely divided than the Balkans. In the course of a single week  Devereaux
will have his nose mangled by an angry colleague  imagine his wife is having an affair with his
dean  wonder if a curvaceous adjunct is trying to seduce him with peach pits  and threaten to
execute a goose on local television. All this while coming to terms with his philandering
father  the dereliction of his youthful promise  and the ominous failure of certain vital body
functions. In short  Straight Man is classic Russo-side-splitting  poignant  compassionate  and
unforgettable.

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