The Risk Pool

By: Richard Russo

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Paperback | 6 November 1998 | Edition Number 1

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496 Pages

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3.1 x 12.9 x 19.8

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THE RISK POOL is a thirty-year journey through the lives of Sam Hall, Mohawk's gambling hellraiser, and his watchful, introspective son Ned. For when Sam returns to Mohawk, Ned's quiet life is changed forever; his days are spent shuttling back and fourth between Sam's ramshackle apartment and his mother Jenny's dream-lost world. Over the next two decades, Ned struggles to win his fathers affections while avoiding his sins. But how does a son please a father whose disregard for all rules of safety, decorum and common sense have landed him at the very bottom of the auto insurance risk pool?

Industry Reviews

"If Russo's books possessed only their big-hearted, endlessly revisitable characters, that would be enough. That they also possess belting story lines about broken families, comically recalcitrant pensioners, small-town decay and the indelibility of roots sometimes seems like an act of unparalleled literary generosity" * Sunday Times * "Perhaps if it was pointed out that here was a US writer who stood somewhere between Anne Tyler at her darkest and Russell Banks, with an occasional hint of Richard Ford at his least bleak, perhaps Russo would become as widely read as he deserves to be" * Irish Times * "No one writing today catches the detail of life with such stunning accuracy" -- Annie Proulx "Charms readers with its humour and refreshes with it's vast, Dickensian cast of characters" * Guardian * "Russo proves himself a master at evoking the sights, feelings and smells of a town... Superbly original and maliciously funny" * New York Times Book Review *

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