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Straight Man
A Novel
Taschenbuch von Richard Russo
Sprache: Englisch

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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 underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt. Devereaux's reluctance is partly rooted in his character--he is a born anarchist--and partly in the fact that his department is more savagely divided than the Balkans.

In the course of a single week, Devereaux will have his nose mangled by an angry colleague, imagine his wife is having an affair with his dean, wonder if a curvaceous adjunct is trying to seduce him with peach pits, and threaten to execute a goose on local television. All this while coming to terms with his philandering father, the dereliction of his youthful promise, and the ominous failure of certain vital body functions. In short, Straight Man is classic Russo-side-splitting, poignant, compassionate, and unforgettable.
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 underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt. Devereaux's reluctance is partly rooted in his character--he is a born anarchist--and partly in the fact that his department is more savagely divided than the Balkans.

In the course of a single week, Devereaux will have his nose mangled by an angry colleague, imagine his wife is having an affair with his dean, wonder if a curvaceous adjunct is trying to seduce him with peach pits, and threaten to execute a goose on local television. All this while coming to terms with his philandering father, the dereliction of his youthful promise, and the ominous failure of certain vital body functions. In short, Straight Man is classic Russo-side-splitting, poignant, compassionate, and unforgettable.
Über den Autor
RICHARD RUSSO is the author of eight novels; two collections of stories; and Elsewhere, a memoir. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which like Nobody’s Fool was adapted to film, in a multiple-award-winning HBO miniseries.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Vintage Contemporaries
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780375701900
ISBN-10: 0375701907
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Russo, Richard
Hersteller: Random House LLC US
Vintage Books
Maße: 129 x 200 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: Richard Russo
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.06.1998
Gewicht: 0,304 kg
Artikel-ID: 121019063
Über den Autor
RICHARD RUSSO is the author of eight novels; two collections of stories; and Elsewhere, a memoir. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which like Nobody’s Fool was adapted to film, in a multiple-award-winning HBO miniseries.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Vintage Contemporaries
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780375701900
ISBN-10: 0375701907
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Russo, Richard
Hersteller: Random House LLC US
Vintage Books
Maße: 129 x 200 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: Richard Russo
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.06.1998
Gewicht: 0,304 kg
Artikel-ID: 121019063
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