Mohawk

'Immensely readable and sympathetic' New York Times

Author of the Pulitzer Prize winning Empire Falls

Informationen zum Autor Richard Russo won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for his fifth novel, Empire Falls . He is also the author of Mohawk , The Risk Pool , Nobody's Fool , Straight Man , Bridge of Sighs and That Old Cape Magic , as well as a collection of stories, The Whore's Child . His original screenplay is the basis for Rowan Atkinson's film Keeping Mum . He lives with his wife in Maine and in Boston. Klappentext Richard Russo won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for his fifth novel, Empire Falls . He is also the author of Mohawk , The Risk Pool , Nobody s Fool , Straight Man , Bridge of Sighs and That Old Cape Magic , as well as a collection of stories, The Whore s Child . His original screenplay is the basis for Rowan Atkinson s film Keeping Mum . He lives with his wife in Maine and in Boston. Zusammenfassung Mohawk, New York, is one of those small towns that lie almost entirely on the wrong side of the tracks. And their son, Randall, is deliberately neglecting his schoolwork - because in a place like Mohawk it doesn't pay to be smart. Mohawk chronicles over a dozen lives in a decaying leather town in upstate New York.

Vorwort
'Immensely readable and sympathetic' New York Times

Author of the Pulitzer Prize winning Empire Falls

Autorentext
Richard Russo won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for his fifth novel, Empire Falls. He is also the author of Mohawk, The Risk Pool, Nobody's Fool, Straight Man, Bridge of Sighs and That Old Cape Magic, as well as a collection of stories, The Whore's Child. His original screenplay is the basis for Rowan Atkinson's film Keeping Mum. He lives with his wife in Maine and in Boston.

Zusammenfassung
Mohawk, New York, is one of those small towns that lie almost entirely on the wrong side of the tracks. And their son, Randall, is deliberately neglecting his schoolwork - because in a place like Mohawk it doesn't pay to be smart. Mohawk chronicles over a dozen lives in a decaying leather town in upstate New York.