After eight commanding works of fiction, the Pulitzer Prize winner now turns to memoir in a hilarious, moving, and always surprising account of his life, his parents, and the upstate New York town they all struggled variously to escape. Anyone familiar with Richard Russo's acclaimed novels will recognize Gloversville once famous for producing that eponymous product and anything else made of leather. This is where the author grew up, the only son of an aspirant mother and a charming, feckless father who were born into this ...
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After eight commanding works of fiction, the Pulitzer Prize winner now turns to memoir in a hilarious, moving, and always surprising account of his life, his parents, and the upstate New York town they all struggled variously to escape. Anyone familiar with Richard Russo's acclaimed novels will recognize Gloversville once famous for producing that eponymous product and anything else made of leather. This is where the author grew up, the only son of an aspirant mother and a charming, feckless father who were born into this close-knit community. But by the time of his childhood in the 1950s, prosperity was inexorably being replaced by poverty and illness (often tannery-related), with everyone barely scraping by under a very low horizon. A world elsewhere was the dream his mother instilled in Rick, and strived for herself, and their subsequent adventures and tribulations in achieving that goal--beautifully recounted here--were to prove lifelong, as would Gloversville's fearsome grasp on them both. Fraught with the timeless dynamic of going home again, encompassing hopes and fears and the relentless tides of familial and individual complications, this story is arresting, comic, heartbreaking, and truly beautiful, an immediate classic.
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New in new dust jacket. Signed by author. Signed by Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Richard Russo, in person. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 246 p. Audience: General/trade. A New (Pristine Condition) copy in a New (Pristine Condition) dust jacket; a tight copy, that was bought new in 2012, and never read, First Edition-First Printing. Signed, signature only, on the Title page, by Multi Award Winning Author Richard Russo, in person, during his Author event in New York City on August 8, 2019. A photo of Richard during the event, and an event announcement will be included. In "Elsewhere" Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Richard Russo writes a memoir which is a hilarious, moving, and an as always surprising account of his life, his parents, and the upstate New York town where they all struggled variously to escape. "Elsewhere" was an NPR Best Book of 2012, as well as a Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction. Rest assured, this acclaimed Author's signed collectible memoir is well protected in an archival Mylar cover; and will be very carefully packaged with protective material; and will be shipped in a new box. We always treat all of our books, and book buyers with the utmost respect.
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