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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780679753834
ISBN: 0679753834
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 496
Publication Date: April 12, 1994
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: April 12, 1994
Sales Rank: 26795
Studio: Vintage
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
A wonderfully funn and perceptive novel in the traditions of Thornton Wilder and Anne Tyler, The Risk Pool is set in Mohawk, New York, where 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.
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
An unfair comparison, no doubt. But a little inevitable when dealing with novels told from the point of veiw of an impoverished child.
'The Risk Pool's more direct ancestor is 'Mohawk', Russo's first novel--they share a locale and even a couple minor characters. But 'The Risk Pool's first person narration serves to tighten things up, bringing a discipline, concision and liniarity that 'Mohawk' could have used.
Regular readers will recognize some of Russo's archetypes: the ... Read More
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I loved it. I would liken his attention to details along the lines of Joyce Carol Oates and Ian McEwan, except his details describe actions to propel the plot, whereas Oates and McEwan's (I like both) use of details moves more of the exploration of the interior and motivations. But it's a lot to plow through, and I wasn't anxious to start another Russo book right away. But I will.
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The characters of Sam Hall and his son Ned will stay with me for a long time, alongside Owen Meany, Huck Finn and a few others.
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One good thing about this book: Russo writes with passion; he draws the readers in with his passages that, while describing something simple, bring intensity with heavy metaphors and similes.
Now for the bad parts: He drags those metaphors and similies out that one subject hops to another, and another, taking up lenghty paragraphs that lead to nowhere land. I'd probably make more money than he did off of this book by getting a dollor for every time he writes "as if," since he uses it for ... Read More
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The mother figure is interesting. As long as she is in the novel, the narrative is charged and rapid. But the relationship between the father and the son--the focus of the novel--does not progress or develop. It is always the same thing: the son admires his father, disapproves of his wild behavior, and cannot free himself of his influence. This is where, I think, the book fails: the son tries to pin his father down, shove him away, and distance himself from him, but he does not succeed. Again and again ... Read More
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