Richard Russo: 32 books

Book cover of Immergleiche Wege

Immergleiche Wege

Erzählungen

by Richard Russo
Language: German
Release Date: May 22, 2018

»Diese Geschichten werden Ihr Herz brechen.« THE NEW YORK TIMES Den berüchtigten Eintritt in die »besten Lebensjahre« - die meisten Protagonisten der Erzählungen von Richard Russo haben ihn schon hinter sich. Die Menschen, die uns hier begegnen, haben in der Regel einen akademischen Hintergrund...
Book cover of Diese gottverdammten Träume
by Richard Russo
Language: German
Release Date: May 13, 2016

Empire Falls, eine Kleinstadt in Maine: Seit über zwanzig Jahren arbeitet Miles Roby im örtlichen Diner. Hier versammelt sich die ganze Stadt, vom Fitness-studiobesitzer bis zum Schuldirektor. Miles selbst hat das College abgebrochen, ist geschieden und lebt in einer winzigen Wohnung über dem Restaurant....
Book cover of Ein grundzufriedener Mann
by Richard Russo
Language: German
Release Date: June 19, 2017

Von Pulitzer-Preisträger Richard Russo Donald Sullivan, von allen nur Sully genannt, führt ein bequemes Leben in der verschlafenen Kleinstadt North Bath. Obwohl er geschieden ist, sein kaputtes Knie ihm immer wieder Ärger macht und er seit Langem eine Affäre mit einer verheirateten Frau hat, ist...
Book cover of Empire Falls
by Richard Russo
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011

**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “Russo writes with a warm, vibrant humanity.... A stirring mix of poignancy, drama and comedy.” —The Washington Post** Welcome to Empire Falls, a blue-collar town full of abandoned mills whose citizens surround themselves with the comforts and feuds...
Book cover of The Destiny Thief

The Destiny Thief

Essays on Writing, Writers and Life

by Richard Russo
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018

"It turns out that Russo the nonfiction writer is a lot like Russo the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. He is affably disagreeable, wry, idiosyncratic, vulnerably bighearted, a craftsman of lubricated sentences."—Jay Fielden, New York Times Book Review A master of the novel, short...
Book cover of Ein Mann der Tat
by Richard Russo
Language: German
Release Date: May 18, 2017

Eigentlich sollte das Memorial-Day-Wochende für alle Bewohner von North Barth eine Zeit der Ruhe und Besinnung sein. Aber in diesem Jahr ist es, als hätte jemand ungebeten die Büchse der Pandora geöffnet. Chief Raymer, der Leiter der Polizeidirektion, kollabiert auf einer Beerdigung, fällt ins...
Book cover of Ergens anders
by Richard Russo
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 22, 2013

‘Een stijlvol memoir over een koppige moeder. Meelijwekkend en grappig, emotioneel ondoorgrondelijk en sterk verwoord.’ – Publishers Weekly ‘Bevrijding is altijd de beloning in een verhaal van Russo. Nergens zien we dat duidelijker dan in Ergens anders, een dapper boek waarin de auteur...
Book cover of Elsewhere

Elsewhere

A memoir

by Richard Russo
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012

A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction An NPR Best Book of 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Russo turns to memoir in this hilarious and bittersweet account of his lifelong bond with his high-strung, spirited mother—and the small town she spent her life trying to escape....
Book cover of Diese alte Sehnsucht
by Richard Russo
Language: German
Release Date: October 1, 2010

Großes amerikanisches Erzählkino Jack Griffin wollte niemals werden wie seine Eltern. Seit dreißig Jahren ist er verheiratet, hat eine wohlgeratene Tochter und wurde nach seiner Karriere als Hollywood-Drehbuchautor Professor an einem kleinen College im Nordosten. Doch nun ist er Mitte fünfzig...
Book cover of The Risk Pool
by Richard Russo
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011

A wonderfully funny, perceptive novel The Risk Pool is set in Mohawk, New York, where Ned Hall is doing his best to grow up, even though neither of his estranged parents can properly be called adult. His father, Sam, cultivates bad habits so assiduously that he is stuck at the bottom of his...
Book cover of Straight Man

Straight Man

A Novel

by Richard Russo
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011

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...
Book cover of The Whore's Child
by Richard Russo
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007

To this irresistible debut collection of short stories, Richard Russo brings the same bittersweet wit, deep knowledge of human nature, and spellbinding narrative gifts that distinguish his best-selling novels. His themes are the imperfect bargains of marriage; the discoveries and disillusionments...
Book cover of Everybody's Fool
by Richard Russo
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016

**A New York Times 2016 Notable Book An immediate national best seller and instant classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls. Richard Russo returns to North Bath—“a town where dishonesty abounds, everyone misapprehends everyone else and half the citizens are half-crazy”...
Book cover of Trajectory

Trajectory

Stories

by Richard Russo
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017

Following the best-selling Everybody's Fool, a new collection of short fiction that demonstrates that Richard Russo--winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls--is also a master of this genre. Russo's characters in these four expansive stories bear little similarity to the blue-collar citizens...
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