![]() ![]() ![]() He is often hilarious but also very tender in the treatment of his subjects. ![]() Russo paints a picture of small town American life like no other. Free to be the anarchist he will always be at heart. In the course of a week after his wife goes away, he gets himself into all kinds of off the wall situations. He bumbles along without really caring taking potshots at his overly zealous and to his mind ridiculous colleagues. This novel by my much loved author Richard Russo has perhaps the funniest prologue to a book I have ever read! While explaining to us how he is not in fact a Straight Man, Russo’s protagonist William Henry Devereaux gives us a wonderful anecdote about his stubbornness as a child, now a middle aged man he is the chairman of the English Department of a run down and underfunded college in Pennsylvania. ![]()
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