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The Rosetta Codex
Penguin Group US 2005; US$ 14.95Cale Alexandros was five years old when his family's starship was attacked en route to Morningstar, the lone outpost of civilization on a savage planet. Cale escaped, only to be picked from the wreckage by nomads. He endured life as a slave until a sympathetic trader freed him, but Cale never forgot what happened in the desert wastes-in a strange,... more...
Ship of Fools
Penguin Group US 2001; US$ 6.99"Powerful...Anyone who was enthralled by the aliens from the movie Alien will love Richard Paul Russo's latest masterpiece." ( Midwest Book Review ) "[Russo] is not afraid to take on the question of evil in a divinely ordered universe."( The New York Times ) "A tale of high adventure and personal drama in the far future." ( Library Journal )]]> more...
Bridge of Sighs
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 15.95Louis Charles Lynch (also known as Lucy) is sixty years old and has lived in Thomaston, New York, his entire life. He and Sarah, his wife of forty years, are about to embark on a vacation to Italy. Lucy's oldest friend, once a rival for his wife's affection, leads a life in Venice far removed from Thomaston. Perhaps for this reason Lucy is writing... more...
The Whore's Child
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 14.95To this irresistible debut collection of short stories, Richard Russo brings the same bittersweet wit, deep knowledge of human nature, and spellbinding narrative gifts that distinguish his best-selling novels. His themes are the imperfect bargains of marriage; the discoveries and disillusionments of childhood;the unwinnable battles men and women insist... more...
That Old Cape Magic
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 15.00For Griffin, all paths, all memories, converge at Cape Cod. The Cape is where he took his childhood summer vacations, where he and his wife, Joy, honeymooned, where they decided he?d leave his LA screenwriting job to become a college professor, and where they celebrated the marriage of their daughter Laura?s best friend. But when their beloved Laura?s... more...
That Old Cape Magic
Random House 2010; US$ 12.00Jack and Joy Griffin are back on Cape Cod - where they spent their hope-filled honeymoon - for a wedding. Cracks are begining to show in Jack's peaceful family life and thirty-four year marriage. He's driving round with his father's ashes in an urn in the boot of his car, haunted by memories of bittersweet family holidays spent at the Cape, while... more...
Mohawk
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.00Originally 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... more...
Empire Falls
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.00Richard Russo?from his first novel, Mohawk , to his most recent, Straight Man ?has demonstrated a peerless affinity for the human tragicomedy, and with this stunning new novel he extends even further his claims on the small-town, blue-collar heart of the country. Dexter County, Maine, and specifically the town of Empire Falls, has seen better days,... more...
Nobody's Fool
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.95In his slyly funny and moving new novel, the author of The Risk Pool follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbeat, upstate New York town--and in the lives of the unluckiest of its citizens. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, and Jessica Tandy. Author reading tour. From the Trade Paperback... more...
The Risk Pool
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 16.00A wonderfully funn and perceptive novel in the traditions of Thornton Wilder and Anne Tyler, The Risk Pool is set in Mohawk, New York, where Ned Hall is doing his best to grow up, even though neither of his estranged parents can properly be called adult. His father, Sam, cultivates bad habits so assiduously that he is stuck at the bottom of his... more...









