Originally published in 1986 in the Vintage Contemporaries paperback series--and reissued now in hardcover alongside his masterful new novel, Empire Falls--Richard Russo's Mohawk remains today as it was described then: A first novel with all the assurance of a mature writer at the peak of form and ambition, Mohawk is set in upstate New York and chronicles over a dozen lives in a leather town, long after the tanneries have started closing down. Ranging over three generations--and clustered mainly in two clans, the Grouses ...
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Originally published in 1986 in the Vintage Contemporaries paperback series--and reissued now in hardcover alongside his masterful new novel, Empire Falls--Richard Russo's Mohawk remains today as it was described then: A first novel with all the assurance of a mature writer at the peak of form and ambition, Mohawk is set in upstate New York and chronicles over a dozen lives in a leather town, long after the tanneries have started closing down. Ranging over three generations--and clustered mainly in two clans, the Grouses and the Gaffneys--these remarkably various lives share only the common human dilemmas and the awesome physical and emotional presence of Mohawk itself. For this is a town like Winesburg, Ohio or Our Town, in our time, that encompasses a plethora of characters, events and mysteries. At once honestly tragic and sharply, genuinely funny, Mohawk captures life, then affirms it.
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Very Good. Size: 6x1x9; 2001 Knopf hard cover-1st edition hard cover-1st printing-minor wear to edge of dust jacket-minor staining to closed page edge-otherwise cover fine binding strong contents clean-now in mylar cover-enjoy.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. Signed by Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Richard Russo, in person. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 317 p. Audience: General/trade. A Fine, copy that was bought new and never read, a tight copy in a Fine, dust jacket, a minimal, slight bump to the upper corners of the book makes the book rating Fine verses New. First Edition-First Printing Hardcover. "Mohawk" was originally published in 1986 in the Vintage Contemporaries paper back series. This copy is 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 May 10, 2016. A photo of Richard during the event, and a photo of the event poster will be included. "Mohawk" is Richard's debut novel, and is set in Mohawk, an upstate mill town in a decline following that of its leather tanning industry. It is novel about life, love, passion, and perversion in the aforementioned decaying mill town. Rest assured, this collectible copy 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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Fine in Fine jacket. Book 0375412867 Original hard cover edition-1st edition 1st printing-novel initially published in 1986 as a Vintage Contemporary paperback only. Book and dust jacket are FINE. Book is collectible quality.
There was nothing about this book that drew me to it. A friend gave it to me, and if it hadn't been for that, I never would have read it.
I'm really glad I did. Russo is an amazing story-teller. I would put him up close to Irving in his vivid charcters and portrayal of regular life, that is actually interesting to read.
