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Susanne Zilla

    The Risk Pool
    Others
    • The Risk Pool

      • 496 páginas
      • 18 horas de lectura

      A wonderfully fun and perceptive novel in the traditions of Thornton Wilder and Anne Tyler, 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 auto insurance risk pool. His mother, Jenny, is slowly going crazy from resentment at a husband who refuses either to stay or to stay away. As Ned veers between allegiances to these grossly inadequate role models, Richard Russo gives us a book that overflows with outsized characters and outlandish predicaments and whose vision of family is at once irreverent and unexpectedly moving.

      The Risk Pool2006
    • Others

      • 512 páginas
      • 18 horas de lectura

      Private eye Nicholas Dismas is hired to find a baby taken at birth. His investigation leads him to a home for the elderly. Here Dismas will discover the dark secret of the Others. In an astonishing and spectacular finale, he will resolve the enigma of his own existence.

      Others2000
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