EAN: 9780593802168

RUSSO RICHARD LIFE AND ART

A marvelous new essay collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Somebody's Fool and
The Destiny Thief    Life and Art —these are the twin subjects considered in Richard Russo’s
twelve masterful new essays—how they inform each other and how the stories we tell ourselves
about both shape our understanding of the world around us.  In “The Lives of Others ” he
reflects on the implacable fact that writers use people  insisting that what matters  in the
end  is how and for what purpose. How do you bridge the gap between what you know and what you
don’t  and sometimes can’t  know? Why tell a story in the first place? What we don’t understand
Russo opines  is in fact the very thing that beckons to us. In “Stiff Neck ” he writes of the
exasperating fault lines exposed within his own family as his wife’s sister and her
husband—proudly unvaccinated—develop COVID. In “Triage ” he details with heartbreaking
vividness the terror of seeing his seven-year-old grandson in critical condition. And in
“Ghosts ” he revisits Gloversville  the town that gave rise to the now-legendary fictional town
of North Bath  and confronts the specter of its richly populated past and its ghostly present.
Sharp  tender  extraordinarily intimate reflections on work  culture  love  and family from one
of the great writers of our time.

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