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by Richard Russo (Author)
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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (6 Nov 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 009943752X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099437529
  • Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 619,795 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The Times

He is brilliant-one of the more beguiling chroniclers of his times


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In this entrancing first collection of stories, a master storyteller focuses on a fresh and fascinating range of human behaviour, revealing himself as an even more versatile and accomplished writer than his acclaimed novels have shown. With a delicious wit and gentle humanity reminiscent of Anne Tyler, and an edginess that recalls Richard Ford, Russo here captures both heartrending tenderness and bewildering horror with a fluency of tone that is all his own. And, as with all Russo's characters we warm to these newcomers almost in spite of themselves. In the title story, a septuagenarian nun resolutely invades the narrator's college writing workshop with an incredible saga; a seasoned Hollywood moviemaker uncovers a 25 year old flame he never knew he'd harboured; a precious 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; and an elderly couple rediscover the power - and misery - of their relationship during a long awaited retreat to a hurricane swept resort island.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, 21 May 2003
By primitivegrrl "primitivegrrl" (Glasgow, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Whore's Child: And Other Stories (Paperback)
I love Richard Russo - in fact Empire Falls is one of my top ten 'desert island' books, but this collection was disappointing. I found it difficult to engage with the characters, as much as you can in a short story, and found most of the stories uninspiring. The first story, The Whores Child, is good, but the rest kind of filter away till the end.

If you want to read the best Russo - get Empire Falls or Mohawk, they are both fantastic reads. But give this a miss. Unless you are a monumental fan of short stories.

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5.0 out of 5 stars WHAT A FIND, 20 April 2009
By Nicola Duffy "booky wook" (uk) - See all my reviews
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EXCELLENT WRITER-NOT WELL KNOWN HERE-IF YOU LIKE JOHN IRVING YOU ARE IN FOR A TREAT
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4.0 out of 5 stars The Whore's Child and Other Stories, 10 Jul 2002
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This review is from: The Whore's Child: And Other Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) (Hardcover)
Russo's first collection of short fiction isn't quite in the same league as his novels but still doesn't disappoint. In these stories he displays a wider range of concerns than the depictions of "blue-collar America" for which he is rightly famed. Two stories really stand out as being amongst his finest work - "Joy Ride" and the magnificent "Mysteries of Linwood Hart". Curiously both of these focus on young boys and their encounters with the larger world - something Russo has previously proved he can do in "The Risk Pool".
Three of the stories focus on middle-aged academics / writers and , perhaps because these focus on the world Russo presumably now inhabits rather than the one he came from, they are the weaker stories in an otherwise fine collection. In summary the book is a mixed bag ( though none of it bad ) but it has to be worth the cover price just for "The Mysteries of Linwood Hart".
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