I read this in an advance copy. It didn't grab me in the same way Empire Falls did and it is rather short so some of the characters were not thoroughly developed but Russo was able to capture the main esseence of their personalities so that you will see people you know in different aspects of each c...
Griffin goes to weddings, loves his wife, is estranged from his wife, carries his parents’ ashes in the trunk of his car, and longs to visit the Cape again.That’s the whole book. I hope I didn’t give anything away.A long, long section in the middle that dragged so much I wanted to put the book down....
The title refers to a modification of the song “That Old Black Magic,” a tune sung with verve and hope by narrator Jack Griffin’s parents when they would cross the bridge into Cape Cod every summer for one month of relief from eleven months of misery. Each of the book’s eleven chapters connects to s...
A throwaway moment with a character who appears in a scant three or four pages sums up some of the best things about this book, and about Russo:Griffin couldn't tell whether the frozen grimace on the man's face [the product of, it seems, a stroke:] represented joy or pain, but decided, arbitrarily, ...
Oh boy! ohboy ohboy ohboy ohboy... Whenever I give a book five stars and don't write much of a review, you all know that it moved me so much that I don't know what to say. I adore Richard Russo, but have never given any of his books five stars. Partway through the book, I never would have expected...
Perhaps I'm just not the intended audience, but neither the story nor the characters resonated with me. Russo is normally a fantastic writer, but the narrative here was a little too muddled for me to get through without going back to check what had already happened. Richard Russo is one of my favor...
Not as good as Empire Falls, but still a good quality offering from Russo. Has a few moments that are absolutely magic, and a few that fall short. It's tough to follow up a Pulitzer Prize winning novel, although this one is very readable, I expect more from Russo.
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