Mirthful's bookblog

What? Two short-story collections in a row? And I actually enjoyed them? Shocking. Well, I don’t suppose there’s any reason to be surprised that The Whore’s Child was enjoyable. Russo normally is, after all. Though enjoyable might be the wrong word, certainly these stories are enjoyable on a very disturbing level.
Another disturbing thing is that [...]

Another re-read, another of Richard Russo’s masterpieces. Oddly enough, The Risk Pool seems not to have been reissued in the new paperback editions of Russo’s works, you can still get hold of it second-hand, though.

More rereading, this time Richard Russo gets the benefit (or, perhaps I ought to say that I get the benefit of Richard Russo? Anyway:) Mohawk is a tale of small-town USA which grabs you and stays with you. Russo makes the people of Mohawk come alive in a way that makes their lives and actions [...]