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To this irresistible debut collection of short tales, Richard Russo brings the same bittersweet wit, deep knowledge of individual mother nature, and spellbinding narrative products that differentiate his best-selling novels. His themes are the imperfect good buys of relationship; the discoveries and disillusionments of childhood; the unwinnable fights women and men insist on fighting with days gone by. A cynical Hollywood moviemaker confronts his deceased wife's enthusiast and abruptly realizes the depth of his own enthusiasm. As his parents' relationship disintegrates, a precocious fifth-grader distracts himself with meditations on baseball, spaghetti, and his put in place the universe. And in the name story, an seniors nun gets into a school creative-writing school and works havoc with its tidy notions of fact and fiction. The Whore's Child is further substantiation that Russo is one of the best possible writers we have, unsparingly truthful yet hugely compassionate.
