The whore's child : and other stories
Russo, Richard , 1949-
The whore's child : and other stories / Richard Russo - New York : Alfred A. Knopf , c2002. - 225 p. ; 22 cm
A jaded Hollywood moviemaker uncovers a decades-old flame he never knew he'd harbored. A precocious fifth grader puzzles over life, love and baseball as he watches his parents' marriage dissolve. Another child is forced into a harrowing cross-country escape whose actual purpose he learns only after the fact. An elderly couple rediscovers the power, and the misery, of their relationship during a long-awaited retreat to a resort island. And in the title story, a septuagenarian nun invades the narrator's college writing workshop with an incredible saga.
English
9780375726019
Short stories
FIC RUS
The whore's child : and other stories / Richard Russo - New York : Alfred A. Knopf , c2002. - 225 p. ; 22 cm
A jaded Hollywood moviemaker uncovers a decades-old flame he never knew he'd harbored. A precocious fifth grader puzzles over life, love and baseball as he watches his parents' marriage dissolve. Another child is forced into a harrowing cross-country escape whose actual purpose he learns only after the fact. An elderly couple rediscovers the power, and the misery, of their relationship during a long-awaited retreat to a resort island. And in the title story, a septuagenarian nun invades the narrator's college writing workshop with an incredible saga.
English
9780375726019
Short stories
FIC RUS
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