MARCH 2019 - AudioFile
Amanda Carlin brings a fresh and compassionate voice to this new narration of Russo’s first novel. The titular down-on-its-luck town in upstate New York and its colorful inhabitants spring to life: Harry, the owner of the local diner, who knows everyone’s business and has a soft spot for the town’s oft-victimized mentally disabled man, Wild Bill; the hapless Dallas and his alienated teenaged son; and the cousins Anne and Diana, who are both in love with the same man. With subtle changes in her pleasant voice Carlin registers the hopefulness and also the thinly veiled despair of the characters with both irony and tenderness. D.G.P. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine
Boston Globe
Russo is a master craftsman . . . The blue-collar heartache at the center
of his fiction has the sheen of Dickens but the epic levity of John
Irving.
Houston Chronicle
Richard Russo [is] a masterful storyteller with a mission: to chronicle
with insight and compassion the day-to-day life of small-town America . . .
alternating episodes of boisterous humor with moments of heart-wrenching
pathos . . . His characters are wholly sympathetic, but they are also
human.
From the Publisher
"Moving dramatizes an older, innocent way of life ... brisk, colorful, and often witty." —The New York Times Book Review
"Immensely readable and sympathetic.... Mr. Russo has an instinctive gift for capturing the rhythms of small-town life." —The New York Times
“Richard Russo [is] a masterful storyteller with a mission: to chronicle with insight and compassion the day-to-day life of small-town America ... alternating episodes of boisterous humor with moments of heart-wrenching pathos ... His characters are wholly sympathetic, but they are also human.”
—Houston Chronicle
“After the last sentence is read, the reader continues to see Russo’s tender, messed-up people coming out of doorways, lurching through life. And keeps on seeing them because they are as real as we are.”
—Annie Proulx
“Russo is a master craftsman ... The blue-collar heartache at the center of his fiction has the sheen of Dickens but the epic levity of John Irving.”—The Boston Globe
MARCH 2019 - AudioFile
Amanda Carlin brings a fresh and compassionate voice to this new narration of Russo’s first novel. The titular down-on-its-luck town in upstate New York and its colorful inhabitants spring to life: Harry, the owner of the local diner, who knows everyone’s business and has a soft spot for the town’s oft-victimized mentally disabled man, Wild Bill; the hapless Dallas and his alienated teenaged son; and the cousins Anne and Diana, who are both in love with the same man. With subtle changes in her pleasant voice Carlin registers the hopefulness and also the thinly veiled despair of the characters with both irony and tenderness. D.G.P. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine