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020			_a9781101947722
050	0	0	_aPS3568.U812 _bA6 2017
082	1		_aFIC RUS _2
100	1		_aRusso, Richard _d(, 1949-)
245	1	0	_aTrajectory _c/ Richard Russo
250			_aFirst edition
260			_aNew York _b: Alfred A. Knopf _c, 2017
300			_a243 p. _c; 22 cm
505	0		_aHorseman -- Voice -- Intervention -- Milton and Marcus.
520			_aIn this pair of novellas and two stories, Russo's characters bear little similarity to the blue-collar citizens we're familiar with from most of his novels. In "Horseman," a tenured professor confronts a young plagiarist as well as her own weaknesses as the Thanksgiving holiday approaches -"And after that, who knew?" In "Intervention," a realtor facing an ominous medical prognosis finds himself in his father's shadow while he presses forward, or not. In "Voice," a semi-retired English professor is conned by his increasingly estranged brother into coming along on a group tour of the Biennale, fleeing a mortifying incident with a traumatized student back in Massachusetts but encountering further complications en route. And in "Milton and Marcus," a lapsed novelist is struggling with his wife's illness and trying to rekindle his screenwriting career, only to be stymied by the pratfalls of that trade when he's called to an aging, iconic star's mountaintop in Wyoming.
546			_aEnglish
650		4	_aLife change events _v- Fiction
650		4	_aFamilies _v--Fiction
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