Russo Article Featured at Associated Content
Wanted to let everyone know that I have an article featured over at Associated Content. It’s an article on Richard Russo’s novel Nobody’s Fool, and it originally ran here about a year ago. If you get a chance, please head over and check it out. Link here.
Where the People Live: Place as Character in Richard Russo’s Nobody’s Fool
One of the hallmarks of Richard Russo’s fiction is the way he binds the lives of his characters to the places in which they reside, but his novel, Nobody’s Fool, takes this a step further by making the town a character in itself and casting the characters in its shadow. Rather than merely serving as [...]
Confrontations with Reality in Richard Russo’s The Whore’s Child
Richard Russo’s collection, The Whore’s Child, features seven short stories with characters who dread coming face to face with specters from their present or past lives. Whether an elderly nun discovering her true history through the barely fictionalized story of her life, a father facing a domestically abusive son-in-law, a movie-maker meeting his wife’s ex-lover, [...]
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