{"product_id":"the-risk-pool-isbn-9780679753834","title":"The Risk Pool","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eEmpire Falls\u003c\/i\u003e comes a wonderfully funny novel 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Superbly original and maliciously funny.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eHis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLook for Richard Russo's new book, \u003ci\u003eSomebody's Fool\u003c\/i\u003e, coming soon.\u003c\/b\u003e\"Russo proves himself a master at evoking the sights, feelings, and smells of a town.... [\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Risk Pool\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is] superbly original and maliciously funny.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York   Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A fine, closely observed novel ... Richard Russo writes with   such sympathy and attention to the rhythms of small-town life that he invests inarticulate   lives with genuine passion.... [He] has succeeded in creating characters with   the emotional weight of people we've known in real life.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Weighted   with wonderful detail ... a rich, anecdotal novel brimming with the metaphorical   lessons of adolescence: on pocket billiards and sexual frustration, trout fishing   and serenity.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Richard Russo has it just perfect in \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Risk Pool\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003e A gem of a novel.\" —\u003ci\u003eSt. Louis Post-Dispatch\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":46302507040997,"sku":"NP9780679753834","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679753834.jpg?v=1767741253","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-risk-pool-isbn-9780679753834","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}