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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Thorndike Pr
Publication date December 1, 2002
Pages 301
Binding Hardcover
Edition Large print
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780786248902
ISBN-10 0786248904
Dimensions 1 by 5.75 by 8.75 in.
Weight 1 lbs.
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $29.95
Other format details large print
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
A collection of short fiction explores the lives of a variety of characters, including a jaded Hollywood filmmaker, a precocious fifth-grader watching his parents' marriage disintegrate, and a child forced into a harrowing cross-country escape.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling Empire Falls—also named the year’s best novel by Time—Richard Russo now focuses, in his first book of short fiction, on a fresh and fascinating range of human behavior. With a fluency of tone that will surprise even his devoted readers, he captures both bewildering horror and heartrending tenderness with an absorbing, compassionate authority.

We warm to these newcomers—as to all Russo’s characters—almost despite ourselves. A jaded Hollywood moviemaker uncovers a decades-old flame he never knew he’d harbored. A precocious fifth grader puzzles over life, love and baseball as he watches his parents’ marriage dissolve. Another child is forced into a harrowing cross-country escape whose actual purpose he learns only after the fact. An elderly couple rediscovers the power, and the misery, of their relationship during a long-awaited retreat to a resort island. And in the title story, a septuagenarian nun invades the narrator’s college writing workshop with an incredible saga.

A masterful novelist here extends his versatility and accomplishment, in a collection that demonstrates yet again that “there is a big, wry heart beating at the center of Russo’s fiction” (The New Yorker).

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Hardcover
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Large print edition from Thorndike Pr (December 1, 2002); titled "The Whore's Child: And Other Stories"
9780786248902 | details & prices | 301 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $29.95
About: A collection of short fiction explores the lives of a variety of characters, including a jaded Hollywood filmmaker, a precocious fifth-grader watching his parents' marriage disintegrate, and a child forced into a harrowing cross-country escape.
1 edition from Alfred a Knopf Inc (July 1, 2002); titled "The Whore's Child: And Other Stories"
9780375411687 | details & prices | 225 pages | 6.00 × 8.75 × 0.87 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $24.00
About: A collection of short fiction explores the lives of a variety of characters, including a jaded Hollywood filmmaker, a precocious fifth-grader watching his parents' marriage disintegrate, and a child forced into a harrowing cross-country escape.
Paperback
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Reprint edition from Vintage Books (July 1, 2003); titled "The Whore's Child: And Other Stories"
9780375726019 | details & prices | 8.00 × 5.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $14.95
About: A collection of short fiction explores the lives of a variety of characters, including a jaded Hollywood filmmaker, a precocious fifth-grader watching his parents' marriage disintegrate, and a child forced into a cross-country escape.
CD/Spoken Word
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Unabridged edition from Chivers Sound Library (December 1, 2002); titled "The Whore's Child and Other Stories"
9780792726692 | details & prices | 7.50 × 6.50 × 1.50 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $32.95
About: A collection of short fiction explores the lives of a variety of characters, including a jaded Hollywood filmmaker, a precocious fifth-grader watching his parents' marriage disintegrate, and a child forced into a harrowing cross-country escape.
Cassette/Spoken Word
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Unabridged edition from Chivers Sound Library (December 1, 2002); titled "The Whore's Child and Other Stories"
9780792726227 | details & prices | 5.00 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.75 lbs | List price $39.95
Unabridged edition from Harperaudio (August 1, 2002); titled "The Whore's Child and Other Stories"
9780060095475 | details & prices | 4.50 × 7.25 × 1.25 in. | 0.40 lbs | List price $25.95
About: A collection of short fiction explores the lives of a variety of characters, including a jaded Hollywood filmmaker, a precocious fifth-grader watching his parents' marriage disintegrate, and a child forced into a harrowing cross-country escape.

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