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Description

In his slyly funny and moving new novel, the author of The Risk Pool follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbeat, upstate New York town--and in the lives of the unluckiest of its citizens. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, and... read more

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Upper Main Street in the village of North Bath, just above the town's two-block-long business district, was quietly rural along old Route 27A, a serpentine two-lane blacktop that snaked its way through the Adirondacks of northern New York, with their tiny, down-at-the-heels resort town, all the way to Montreal and prosperity.

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  1. Richard Russo (Author)
 

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