Trajectory: Stories

Resumen del libro

Russo's characters in these four expansive stories bear little similarity to the blue-collar citizens we're familiar with from many of his novels. In Horseman, a professor confronts a young plagiarist as well as her own weaknesses as the Thanksgiving holiday looms closer and closer: 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 semiretired academic is conned by his increasingly estranged brother into coming along on a group tour of the Venice Biennale, fleeing a mortifying incident with a traumatized student back in Massachusetts but encountering further complications in the maze of Venice. And in Milton and Marcus, a lapsed novelist struggles with his wife's illness and tries 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 retreat in Wyoming.

Biografía del autor

Richard Russo ha escrito las novelas Mohawk, Alto riesgo, y Ni un pelo de tonto, la cual ha sido llevada al cine y protagonizada por Paul Newman. Sus últimas novelas son Straight Man y Empire Falls con la que ha ganado el Premio Pulitzer 2002.