Richard Russo: 32 books

20 stories, poems, and essays by bestselling writers paired with 20 pieces by aspiring writers 40+ pages of interviews, writing prompts, and tools for classroom use THE STORY I WANT TO TELL pairs the work of 20 aspiring young writers—including immigrants from war-ravaged countries—with original...

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection   As his parents’ marriage disintegrates, a precocious if distracted fifth-grader starts to daydream about baseball, spaghetti, and his place in the universe. Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo is one of America’s finest writers, and here,...

Mohawk, New York, is one of those small towns that lie almost entirely on the wrong side of the tracks. Its citizens, too, have fallen on hard times. Dallas Younger, a star athlete in high school, now drifts from tavern to poker game, losing money, and, inevitably, another set of false teeth. His...

This slyly funny, moving novel about a blue-collar town in upstate New York—and in the life of Sully, of one of its unluckiest citizens, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years—is a classic American story. Divorced from his own wife and carrying on halfheartedly...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls comes a new revelation: a riveting story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship. One beautiful September day, three men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. They couldn't have...

*This moving novel follows Louis Charles Lynch (“Lucy”) as he and his wife of forty years are about to embark on a vacation to Italy. * Lucy is sixty years old and has spent his entire life in Thomaston, New York. Like his late, beloved father, Lucy is an optimist, though he’s had plenty...

Het nieuwe gezag in het verpauperde industriestadje North Bath is politiechef Douglas Raymer. Doug heeft het niet makkelijk: vlak voor zijn pensioen verongelukt zijn vrouw die op het punt stond om met haar geheime minnaar te verdwijnen. Hij is vastbesloten die minnaar te vinden, maar met grafschennis,...

Donald Sully woont al vijftig jaar in het doodsaaie plaatsje North Bath ten noorden van New York. In al die jaren heeft hij niet heel veel geluk gehad. Gescheiden en nu in een halfslachtige relatie met andermans vrouw, woont hij boven zijn bejaarde oud-lerares Engels die hem soms nog steeds de les...

A provocative, unprecedented anthology featuring original short stories on what it means to be an American from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen: “This chorus of brilliant voices articulating the shape and texture...

For Griffin, all paths, all memories, converge at Cape Cod.  The Cape is where he took his childhood summer vacations, where he and his wife, Joy, honeymooned, where they decided he’d leave his LA screenwriting job to become a college professor, and where they celebrated the marriage of their daughter...

Het zit Hank Devereaux, een gesjeesd auteur, niet mee. Als voorzitter van de faculteit Engels moet hij zich het gekonkel van zijn collega’s laten welgevallen, terwijl hij zijn vrouw ervan verdenkt een relatie te hebben met de decaan. Ook is hij niet in staat zijn dochter te begrijpen of op goede...

'Goed geschreven, vlot verteld en de personages worden treffend beschreven.' - NRC Handelsblad ‘Toproman.’ – Herman Brusselmans

A brand new collection of powerful insights into business team-building… 4 pioneering books, now in a convenient e-format, at a great price!   4 remarkable eBooks help you create and inspire great teams to unprecedented levels of performance   Your success is crucially dependent on your ability...

"Truly gripping . . . a lot more realistic than most near-future SF, as well as being just plain better written than most of it." — Science Fiction Chronicle In the crumbling San Francisco of tomorrow, a former narcotics-squad cop is reluctantly drawn into the investigation of...