Risk Pool, Paperback - Richard Russo

The Risk Pool is a thirty-year journey through the lives of Sam Hall, a small-town gambling hellraiser, and his watchful, introspective son Ned.

Reducere. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls comes a new revelation: a riveting story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship. ...

Hank Devereaux, a fifty-year-old, one-time novelist now serving as temporary chair of the English department, has more than a mid-life crisis to co...

Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Russo's first standalone novel in a decade is a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship.

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 neg...

Jack and Joy Griffin are back on Cape Cod - where they spent their hope-filled honeymoon - for a wedding. He's driving round with his father's ashe...

Novel set in small town Maine, with a colourful array of characters, which makes a sinuous exploration of the foibles of human nature, with a great...

Reducere. This moving novel follows Louis Charles Lynch ("Lucy") as he and his wife of forty years are about to embark on a vacation to Italy. Lucy is sixty ...

Richard Russo's slyly funny and moving novel follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbeat town in upstate New York - and in the life of ...

Reducere. Hilarious and true-to-life, witty, compassionate, and impossible to put down, Straight Man follows Hank Devereaux through one very bad week in this...

This new collection of stories demonstrates that Richard Russo - winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls - is also a master of the short form.

DescriptionA provocative, unprecedented anthology featuring original short stories on what it means to be an American from thirty bestselling and a...

Publisher: Richard DennisAuthor(s): Paul AtterburyIllustration(s): 50 colour platesNumber of pages: 24Publication date: 1997Dimensions: 238 x 100 x...

Turn cyber intelligence into meaningful business decisions and reduce losses from cyber events Cyber Intelligence-Driven Risk provides a solution t...

Reducere. There is a great controversial fog that is dividing the Israelite camps in the North Atlantic. It is the belief of some that Esau's descendants are...

Reducere. Filmmaker Wakefield Poole wrote the rules for living on the edge with no safety net and no apologies. How a respected Broadway dancer, choreographe...

Reducere. DescriptionNatural Gas Trading in North America presents the core knowledge required to work on a natural gas trading desk in North America. The ma...

Reducere. One of the most remarkable natural antioxidants ever discovered, Pycnogenol is a complex of more than forty individual antioxidants extraced from t...

Reducere. Prezenta editie de Opere ale lui Alecu Russo reflecta din plin activitatea multilaterala a celui care a intrat in constiinta publica cu numele de "...

Reducere. Ridica privirea si-si vede reflexia in geamul de la metrou. Nu mai este tanar si isi uraste varsta. Alma, fata rebela care apare spontan in viata l...

Reducere. Discover the facts behind reducing your risk of cancer with cancer-fighting foods in this informative and visual guide supported by the latest canc...

Reducere. DescriptionTwo girls, Pearl and Ginevra, grow up in the singular moment known as the Gilded Age in Newport, Rhode Island--one lives above the stair...

Includes material on the market crisis. This book presents models where the complex gyrations of the FTSE 100 and exchange rates can be reduced to ...

Reducere. Cum e sa traiesti cu amintiri din viitor? Cum e sa stii ce va fi maine? Intr-o viata in care viitorul si trecutul isi schimba locurile, ramane doar...

Trenul cu destinatie necunoscuta nu incetineste Feodor urmareste prin crapaturile de la vagon soarele care arde iarba. Acesta incearca sa ghiceasca...

Reducere. Mir invata sa traiasca cu amintiri din trecut. Sa fie ca toti ceilalti intr-o viata in care trecutul si viitorul nu se mai schimba cu locul. Cand t...

Reducere. Intr-o lume in care mor doar cei care vor sa moara, Artur decide sa tina un jurnal in care isi noteaza toate gandurile si trairile sale. Odata ce o...

Reducere. Cei mai buni inamici. Povestea ultimului mare spion din Razboiul Rece Cateodata, pentru ca esti prieten cu o anumita persoana, ajungi sa fii aresta...

Cum e sa traiesti intre alb si negru? Mia este o pianista remarcabila. Toti ii prevad un viitor frumos pana in ziua in care dispare fara nicio urma...

This is a very different book from the traditional speed-merchant genre. In his book Take Risk! Richard Noble tells the extraordinary stories of hi...