The Mysteries of Linwood Hart

Ebook
On sale May 18, 2016 | 32 Pages | 978-1-101-97370-7
A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection
 
As his parents’ marriage disintegrates, a precocious if distracted fifth-grader starts to daydream about baseball, spaghetti, and his place in the universe. Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo is one of America’s finest writers, and here, truthfully and with compassion, he unwinds the slow disillusionment of childhood.
 
A selection from Russo’s tenderhearted collection of short stories, The Whore’s Child.
 
An ebook short. 

Look for Richard Russo's new book, Somebody's Fool, coming soon.
© Elena Seibert
RICHARD RUSSO is the author of nine novels, most recently Chances Are..., Everybody’s Fool and That Old Cape Magic; two collections of stories; and the memoir Elsewhere. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which, like Nobody’s Fool, was adapted into a multiple-award-winning miniseries; in 2017, he received France’s Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine. He lives in Port­land, Maine. View titles by Richard Russo

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A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection
 
As his parents’ marriage disintegrates, a precocious if distracted fifth-grader starts to daydream about baseball, spaghetti, and his place in the universe. Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo is one of America’s finest writers, and here, truthfully and with compassion, he unwinds the slow disillusionment of childhood.
 
A selection from Russo’s tenderhearted collection of short stories, The Whore’s Child.
 
An ebook short. 

Look for Richard Russo's new book, Somebody's Fool, coming soon.

Author

© Elena Seibert
RICHARD RUSSO is the author of nine novels, most recently Chances Are..., Everybody’s Fool and That Old Cape Magic; two collections of stories; and the memoir Elsewhere. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which, like Nobody’s Fool, was adapted into a multiple-award-winning miniseries; in 2017, he received France’s Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine. He lives in Port­land, Maine. View titles by Richard Russo