The Mysteries of Linwood Hart

by Richard Russo

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101973707
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/18/2016
Series:	A Vintage Short
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	454,679
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Richard Russo is the author of eight novels; The Whore's Child, a collection of stories; and Elsewhere, a memoir. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which like Nobody's Fool was adapted to film, in a multiple-award-winning HBO mini-series. He lives in Portland, ME.

Hometown:

Gloversville, New York

Date of Birth:

July 15, 1949

Place of Birth:

Johnstown, New York

Education:

B.A., University of Arizona, 1967; Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1979; M.F.A., University of Arizona, 1980