{"product_id":"mohawk-isbn-9780679753827","title":"Mohawk","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eEmpire Falls\u003c\/i\u003e comes a wonderfully written novel about a small town in New York whose citizens have fallen on hard times. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Immensely readable and sympathetic.... Mr. Russo has an instinctive gift for capturing the rhythms of small-town life.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMohawk, New York, is one of those small towns that lie almost entirely on the wrong side of the tracks. Dallas Younger, a star athlete in high school, now drifts from tavern to poker game, losing money, and, inevitably, another set of false teeth. His ex-wife, Anne, is stuck in a losing battle with her mother over the care of her sick father. And their son, Randall, is deliberately neglecting his school work—because in a place like Mohawk it doesn't pay to be too smart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMohawk, \u003c\/i\u003eRusso explores these lives with profound compassion and flint-hard wit. Out of derailed ambitions and old loves, secret hatreds and communal myths, he has created a richly plotted, densely populated, and wonderfully written novel that captures every nuance of America's backyard.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLook for Richard Russo's new book, \u003ci\u003eSomebody's Fool\u003c\/i\u003e, coming soon.\u003c\/b\u003e\"Moving dramatizes an older, innocent way of life ... brisk, colorful, and often witty.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Immensely readable and sympathetic.... Mr. Russo has an instinctive gift for capturing the rhythms of small-town life.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Richard Russo [is] a masterful storyteller with a mission: to chronicle with insight and compassion the day-to-day life of small-town America ... alternating episodes of boisterous humor with moments of heart-wrenching pathos ... His characters are wholly sympathetic, but they are also human.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eHouston Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“After the last sentence is read, the reader continues to see Russo’s tender, messed-up people coming out of doorways, lurching through life. And keeps on seeing them because they are as real as we are.”\u003cbr\u003e—Annie Proulx\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Russo is a master craftsman ... The blue-collar heartache at the center of his fiction has the sheen of Dickens but the epic levity of John Irving.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003eRICHARD RUSSO is the author of nine novels, most recently \u003ci\u003eChances Are..., Everybody’s Fool\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThat Old Cape Magic;\u003c\/i\u003e two collections of stories; and the memoir \u003ci\u003eElsewhere.\u003c\/i\u003e In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for \u003ci\u003eEmpire Falls,\u003c\/i\u003e which, like \u003ci\u003eNobody’s Fool,\u003c\/i\u003e was adapted into a multiple-award-winning miniseries; in 2017, he received France’s Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine. He lives in Port­land, Maine.Author of Nobody's Fool","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300737798373,"sku":"NP9780679753827","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679753827.jpg?v=1767732879","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/mohawk-isbn-9780679753827","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}