Straight Man: A Novel - Vintage Contemporaries - Richard Russo - Books - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group - 9780375701900 - June 9, 1998
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Straight Man: A Novel - Vintage Contemporaries

Richard Russo

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Straight Man: A Novel - Vintage Contemporaries

In this uproarious new novel, Richard Russo performs his characteristic high-wire walk between hilarity and heartbreak.  Russo's protagonist is William Henry Devereaux, Jr., the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt.  Devereaux's reluctance is partly rooted in his character--he is a born anarchist-- and partly in the fact that his department is more savagely divided than the Balkans.  

In the course of a single week, Devereaux will have his nose mangled by an angry colleague, imagine his wife is having an affair with his dean, wonder if a curvaceous adjunct is trying to seduce him with peach pits, and threaten to execute a goose on local television.  All this while coming to terms with his philandering father, the dereliction of his youthful promise, and the ominous failure of certain vital body functions.  in short, Straight Man is classic Russo--side-splitting and true-to-life, witty, compassionate, and impossible to put down.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released June 9, 1998
ISBN13 9780375701900
Publishers Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages 391
Dimensions 204 × 130 × 25 mm   ·   304 g
Language English  

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