- Title:
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The Risk Pool (MP3)
- Written by:
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Richard Russo
- Read by:
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Sean Mangan
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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2
- Duration:
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19 hours 52 minutes
- MP3 size:
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864 MB
- Published:
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April 01 2005
- Available Date:
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April 01 2005
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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1740948823
- APN / ISBN-13:
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9781740948821
- Genres:
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Fiction; American Fiction; Family Sagas; Literary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Price
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Winner The Pulitzer Prize 2002
"As good a novel as we are likely to get this year."
Publishers Weekly
"Superbly original and maliciously funny.”
The New York Times Book Review
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls.
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 auto insurance risk pool. His mother, Jenny, is slowly going crazy from resentment at a husband who refuses either to stay or to stay away. As Ned veers between allegiances to these grossly inadequate role models, Richard Russo gives us a book that overflows with outsized characters and outlandish predicaments and whose vision of family is at once irreverent and unexpectedly moving.
"Richard Russo writes with a prose that is realistic, engaging and ultimately enjoyable."
Amazon
"A rich, anecdotal novel brimming with metaphorical lessons of adolescence: on pocket billiards and sexual frustration, trout fishing and serenity.”
The Boston Globe
“Richard Russo has it just perfect in The Risk Pool. A gem of a novel.”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch