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Elsewhere : [a memoir] / Richard Russo.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307959539
- ISBN: 0307959538
- Physical Description: 246 p. ; 23 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "This is a Borzoi book." Subtitle from cover. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Independence -- A good talking-to -- A diagnosis -- Unsettled -- Real time -- Here and there -- High and dry. |
| Summary, etc.: | This work is the author's memoir of his life, his parents, and the upstate New York town they all struggled variously to escape. Anyone familiar with the author's fiction will recognize Gloversville, New York, 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 good-time, second-fiddle 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), 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, recounted here, only to prove lifelong, as would Gloversville's fearsome grasp on them both. |
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| Subject: | Russo, Richard, 1949- > Family. Russo, Richard, 1949- > Childhood and youth. Novelists, American > Biography. Gloversville (N.Y.) > Biography. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Main | 813.54 R921e (Text) | 31307020512630 | Storage | Available | - |
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Author Notes
Elsewhere
Richard Russo was born in Johnstown, New York on July 15, 1949. He received a Bachelor's degree, a Master of Fine Arts degree, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Arizona. He taught at numerous colleges including Southern Illinois University Carbondale and Colby College. He has written numerous books including Mokawk, The Risk Pool, Straight Man, Bridge of Sighs, and That Old Cape Magic, as well as a short story collection, The Whore's Child. His novel Empire Falls won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Nobody's Fool was made into a movie starring Paul Newman, Bruce Willis and Melanie Griffith. His memoir was entitled Elsewhere. He also co-wrote the 1998 film Twilight with director Robert Benton and the teleplay for the HBO adaptation of Empire Falls. (Bowker Author Biography)
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