{"product_id":"9780375411687-secondhand-the-whores-child-and-other-stories","title":"The Whore's Child: And Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eAwarded the Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling \"Empire Falls\"--also named the year's best novel by \"Time\"--Richard Russo now focuses, in his first book of short fiction, on a fresh and fascinating range of human behavior. With a fluency of tone that will surprise even his devoted readers, he captures both bewildering horror and heartrending tenderness with an absorbing, compassionate authority.  We warm to these newcomers--as to all Russo's characters--almost despite ourselves. A jaded Hollywood moviemaker uncovers a decades-old flame he never knew he'd harbored. A precocious fifth grader puzzles over life, love and baseball as he watches his parents' marriage dissolve. Another child is forced into a harrowing cross-country escape whose actual purpose he learns only after the fact. An elderly couple rediscovers the power, and the misery, of their relationship during a long-awaited retreat to a resort island. And in the title story, a septuagenarian nun invades the narrator's college writing workshop with an incredible saga.  A masterful novelist here extends his versatility and accomplishment, in a collection that demonstrates yet again that \"there is a big, wry heart beating at the center of Russo's fiction\" (\"The New Yorker\").\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48910410350811,"sku":"9780375411687-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/9780375411687-us-300.jpg?v=1782690830","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780375411687-secondhand-the-whores-child-and-other-stories","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}