| Trajectory: Stories Contributor(s): Russo, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 1101971983 ISBN-13: 9781101971987 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.60 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The characters in these four expansive stories are a departure from the blue-collar denizens that populate so many of Richard Russo's novels; and all are bound together by parallel moments of reckoning with their pasts. In "Horseman," a young professor confronts an undergraduate plagiarist--as well as her own regrets. In "Intervention," a realtor facing a serious medical prognosis finds himself in his late father's shadow. "Voice" gives us a semiretired academic who is conned by his estranged brother into joining a group tour of the Venice Biennale. And "Milton and Marcus" takes us into a lapsed novelist's attempt to rekindle his screenwriting career--a career that depends wholly, at a crucial moment, on two Hollywood icons (one living, one dead). Shot through with Russo's inimitable humor, wisdom, and surprise, Trajectory is the work of a masterful writer continuing to discover new heights. |