Whore's Child, and other stories, The (SIGNED COPY)
by: Russo, Richard

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 225 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED & INSCRIBED TO "GEORGE" by AUTHOR ON HALF COVER. Otherwise unmarked. A clean, tight copy. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling Empire Falls--also named the year's best novel by Time--Richard Russo now focuses, in his first book of short fiction, on a fresh and fascinating range of human behavior. A jaded Hollywood moviemaker uncovers a decades-old flame he never knew he'd harbored. A precocious fifth grader puzzles over life, love and baseball as he watches his parents' marriage dissolve. Another child is forced into a harrowing cross-country escape whose actual purpose he learns only after the fact. An elderly couple rediscovers the power, and the misery, of their relationship during a long-awaited retreat to a resort island. And in the title story, a septuagenarian nun invades the narrator's college writing workshop with an incredible saga.