Mohawk

by Richard Russo Narrated by Amanda Carlin

Overview

Originally published in 1986 in the Vintage Contemporaries paperback series-and reissued now in hardcover alongside his masterful new novel, Empire Falls-Richard Russo's Mohawk remains today as it was described then: A first novel with all the assurance of a mature writer at the peak of form and ambition, Mohawk is set in upstate New York and chronicles over a dozen lives in a leather town, long after the tanneries have started closing down. Ranging over three generations-and clustered mainly in two clans, the Grouses and the Gaffneys-these remarkably various lives share only the common human dilemmas and the awesome physical and emotional presence of Mohawk itself.

For this is a town like Winesburg, Ohio or Our Town, in our time, that encompasses a plethora of characters, events and mysteries. At once honestly tragic and sharply, genuinely funny, Mohawk captures life, then affirms it.

Editorial Reviews

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

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169183184
Publisher:	Penguin Random House
Publication date:	02/12/2019
Edition description:	Unabridged

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