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After eight commanding works of fiction, the Pulitzer Reward winner now changes to memoir in a hilarious, moving, and always unexpected accounts of his life, his parents, and the upstate New York town they all struggled variously to flee. Anyone acquainted with Richard Russo's acclaimed novels will recognize Gloversville, once well-known for producing that eponymous product and anything else made of leather. That's where the author grew up, the only kid of your aspirant mother and a lovely, feckless father who were born into this close-knit community. But by enough time of his childhood in the 1950s, prosperity was inexorably being changed by poverty and health issues (often tannery-related), with everyone hardly scraping by under a very low horizon. A world in other places was the fantasy his mother instilled in Rick, and strived for herself, and their following escapades and tribulations in obtaining that goal - attractively recounted here - were to prove lifelong, as would Gloversville's fearsome knowledge on them both. Fraught with the timeless dynamic of heading home again, encompassing desires and concerns and the relentless tides of familial and individual complications, this account is arresting, comic, heartbreaking, and truly beautiful: an instantaneous classic.
