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2007., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Fic Rus Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Louis Charles ("Lucy") Lynch has spent his whole life in Thomaston, New York. He's been married to the same woman, Sarah, for forty years. They are planning a trip to Italy to visit his oldest friend, a self-exiled painter, where he hopes to uncover information relevant to the history he's writing of his hometown.
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2019., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Fic Rus Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a new revelation: a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship. One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. They couldn't have been more different then, or even today--Lincoln's a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press publisher, and Mickey a musician beyond his rockin' age. But each man holds his own secrets, in addition to the monumental mystery that none of them has ever stopped puzzling over since a Memorial Day weekend right here on the Vineyard in 1971. Now, forty-four years later, as this new weekend unfolds, three lives and that of a significant other are displayed in their entirety while the distant past confounds the present like a relentless squall of surprise and discovery. Shot through with Russo's trademark comedy and humanity, Chances Are. also introduces a new level of suspense and menace that will quicken the reader's heartbeat throughout this absorbing saga of how friendship's bonds are every bit as constricting and rewarding as those of family or any other community. For both longtime fans and lucky newcomers, Chances Are. is a stunning demonstration of a highly acclaimed author deepening and expanding his remarkable achievement"--
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2016., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Fic Rus Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Richard Russo, at the very top of his game, now returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and the characters who made Nobody's Fool (1993) a 'confident, assured novel [that] sweeps the reader up,' according to the San Francisco Chronicle back then. 'Simple as family love, yet nearly as complicated.' Or, as The Boston Globe put it, 'a big, rambunctious novel with endless riffs and unstoppable human hopefulness.' The irresistible Sully, who in the intervening years has come by some unexpected good fortune, is staring down a VA cardiologist's estimate that he has only a year or two left, and it's hard work trying to keep this news from the most important people in his life: Ruth, the married woman he carried on with for years... the ultra-hapless Rub Squeers, who worries that he and Sully aren't still best friends... Sully's son and grandson, for whom he was mostly an absentee figure (and now a regretful one). We also enjoy the company of Doug Raymer, the chief of police who's obsessing primarily over the identity of the man his wife might've been about to run off with, before dying in a freak accident... Bath's mayor, the former academic Gus Moynihan, whose wife problems are, if anything, even more pressing... and then there's Carl Roebuck, whose lifelong run of failing upward might now come to ruin. And finally, there's Charice Bond--a light at the end of the tunnel that is Chief Raymer's office--as well as her brother, Jerome, who might well be the train barreling into the station. Everybody's Fool is filled with humor, heart, hard times and people you can't help but love, possibly because their various faults make them so stridently human. This is classic Russo--and a crowning achievement from one of the greatest storytellers of our time."--Publisher.
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By Zaillian, Steven Ferguson, Scott Baker, Mark A. Price, Richard, 1949- Ahmed, Riz, 1982- Maåadi, Payman, 1972- Jagannathan, Poorna Lafi, Syam M. Black-D'elia, Sofia Karan, Amara, 1984- Turturro, John, 1957- Camp, Bill Russo, Jeff, 1969- Martinovic, Igor BBC Worldwide Film Rites (Firm) Bad Wolf (Firm) Home Box Office (Firm) HBO Home Entertainment (Firm) Warner[2016]., Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Night of Edition: Widescreen edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An HBO limited series. After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and he is charged with her murder.
![The night of [DVD] (2016).](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "The night of [DVD] (2016).")
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c2009., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Fic Rus Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Griffin has been tooling around for nearly a year with his father's ashes in the trunk, but his mother is very much alive and not shy about calling on his cell phone. She does so as he drives down to Cape Cod, where he and his wife, Joy, will celebrate the marriage of their daughter Laura's best friend. For Griffin this is akin to driving into the past, since he took his childhood summer vacations here, his parents' respite from the hated Midwest. And the Cape is where he and Joy honeymooned, in the course of which they drafted the Great Truro Accord, a plan for their lives together that's now thirty years old and has largely come true. He'd left screenwriting and Los Angeles behind for the sort of New England college his snobby academic parents had always aspired to in vain; they'd moved into an old house full of character; and they'd started a family. Check, check and check. But be careful what you pray for, especially if you manage to achieve it. By the end of this perfectly lovely weekend, the past has so thoroughly swamped the present that the future suddenly hangs in the balance. And when, a year later, a far more important wedding takes place, their beloved Laura's, on the coast of Maine, Griffin's chauffeuring two urns of ashes as he contends once more with Joy and her large, unruly family, and both he and she have brought dates along. How in the world could this have happened? That Old Cape Magic is a novel of deep introspection and every family feeling imaginable, with a middle-aged man confronting his parents and their failed marriage, his own troubled one, his daughter's new life and, finally, what it was he thought he wanted and what in fact he has."--Inside jacket.
