Risk Pool edition by Richard Russo Literature Fiction eBooks
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In Mohawk, New York, Ned Hall is doing his best to grow up, even though neither of his estranged parents can properly be called adult.
His father, Sam, cultivates bad habits so assiduously that he is stuck at the bottom of his car insurance risk pool. His mother, Jenny, is slowly going crazy from resentment at a husband who refuses either to stay or to stay away. As Ned veers between allegiances to these grossly inadequate role models, Richard Russo gives us a book that overflows with outsized characters and outlandish predicaments and whose vision of family is at once irreverent and unexpectedly moving.
Risk Pool edition by Richard Russo Literature Fiction eBooks
This is a beautiful story about the struggles of a young man, trying to raise himself in the midst of two parents who are incapable of doing it themselves. The characters in this book are rendered in full – we are given glimpses into the good, the bad and the ugly about their lives. In so many instances in our lives, we are quick to judge – we condemn the choices, actions, appearance, behavior and opinions of others. In a world lived through the TV lens – we are seldom introduced to people outside the mainstream. TV provides a two dimensional perspective of the world – everyone is rich, everyone is beautiful, everyone is young, everyone has fake boobs, everyone has plastic surgery and everyone has a great life.Except on reality TV, where they show us the “real” lives of the truly dysfunctional. The sad truth is that these shows are not real. They are scripted, produced, manipulated and directed to be entertaining – they encourage outrageous behavior, audacious personalities and shocking actions. These become the two primary perspectives we have of people – via TV – they are either great looking and successful or they are highly dysfunctional.
TV news shows us a third group – these are the lost souls that are interviewed whenever there is a shooting in the inner city or a plane crash in Oklahoma. These are the fractured remnants of the “lower class” – often looking very different, speaking very different and acting different than we are accustomed.
Real people don’t exist on TV. Real people only exist in the real world. Richard Russo provides a crystal clear picture of the people who inhabit the world outside the TV lens. These are the people who didn’t go to college, live in the town they were born in, are focused on surviving today not planning for their retirement in Florida – they shop (and work) at Wal-Mart and live a much different life that the suburban/urban TV producers and viewers.
The Risk Pool is a stellar, multi-dimensional perspective of characters that live on the fringe. No one is all good or all bad. We often make decisions about people based on how they talk, look, act or live – we are suspect of those who don’t “do it all” the way we do. Suburbanization has caused homogenization – we all want to cluster with others who are just like us. As time goes buy, we insulate ourselves further and further in pools of “likeness.” We judge, condemn and classify all others.
All men go through the same experiences, fears, challenges, doubts and struggles. Regardless of demographics, our pains are shared. The Risk Pool will open your eyes to men who live hard, love deeply, screw up regularly, violate normal behavior – but in so doing, reveal their hearts – and yours. Step outside yourself and give it a tumble – you won’t regret it.
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Risk Pool edition by Richard Russo Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I am a huge Russo fan and have read most of his other books. "The Risk Pool" is of nowhere near the same quality as "Empire Falls", "Nobody's Fool", "Everybody's Fool" or "The Bridge of Sighs." Having recently finished both "Fool" books, it was interesting to note the similarities between the characters SamHall/Don Sullivan and Eileen/Ruth and the towns of North Bath/Mohawk. It was almost as though "The Risk Pool" was a first draft of the later novels. All 3 books feature a dysfunctional, alcoholic, ne'er-do-well major character, but he is so much more likable in the later 2 iterations.So, if you have limited time or patience and want to read one book about a dysfunctional, alcoholic, ne'er-do-well in a dying upstate New York town, read "Nobody's Fool." It's fabulous, funny and endearing, while "The Risk Pool" is slow, depressing and boring.
Set in Mohawk, New York, The Risk Pool follows Ned Hall through various stages of his life. The Risk Pool is a coming of age novel but it is also the story of Mohawk (a story that began in Russo's first novel, appropriately titled Mohawk). Only an hour from Manhattan by bus, Mohawk in the 1950s of Ned Hall's youth is a small town that is (from Hall's perspective) dominated by bars, pool halls, blight, and affable losers. Russo populates Mohawk with the luckless and lazy, with bitter gossips and pretentious posers, with priests who dishonor their vows and hustlers who never intend to keep their promises. They often have a certain roguish charm but they are a sad lot.
The misfortunes of a town in decline echo in its residents. The people of Mohawk and the town itself seem to have given up. Still, Russo invests all of the characters with dignity and humanity. They may be drunks and scoundrels and forgotten, but they have value.
Young Hall lives in a perpetual state of humiliation. The father who abandoned him returns to embarrass him. The mother who protected him descends into a state that is beyond depression, becoming nearly catatonic, forcing him out of his house and into the alcohol-fueled world of white trash. When he first meets the lovely daughter of a wealthy man, Hall bleats like a goat. Seeing her fear, Hall wants to teach her the art of being unafraid, despite having never mastered it himself. Overcoming fear is one of the novel's central themes.
Much of the novel takes place post-Mohawk but the town's formative force always lingers. Hall has been shaped by it but also by the desire to leave. While he is still in Mohawk, that desire is manifested in the time he sequesters himself in the library, reading books at random, learning more in a few quiet hours than in entire weeks at school. After he leaves, his motivation to move forward is fueled by the need to gain more distance from Mohawk, to escape its gravity.
Richard Russo writes with a light touch and appealing wit that provokes soft chuckles. The tone makes bearable the dark, painful scenes that are at the novel's core. The Risk Pool is much like a life often quiet, sometimes raucous, well-managed until it seems like it might be out of control, filled with comic and tragic moments that sustain interest in times that are mostly mundane. To use adjectives that reviewers overuse but that are nevertheless apt in this case, The Risk Pool is brilliant, haunting, and touching. It is a masterpiece.
This is a beautiful story about the struggles of a young man, trying to raise himself in the midst of two parents who are incapable of doing it themselves. The characters in this book are rendered in full – we are given glimpses into the good, the bad and the ugly about their lives. In so many instances in our lives, we are quick to judge – we condemn the choices, actions, appearance, behavior and opinions of others. In a world lived through the TV lens – we are seldom introduced to people outside the mainstream. TV provides a two dimensional perspective of the world – everyone is rich, everyone is beautiful, everyone is young, everyone has fake boobs, everyone has plastic surgery and everyone has a great life.
Except on reality TV, where they show us the “real” lives of the truly dysfunctional. The sad truth is that these shows are not real. They are scripted, produced, manipulated and directed to be entertaining – they encourage outrageous behavior, audacious personalities and shocking actions. These become the two primary perspectives we have of people – via TV – they are either great looking and successful or they are highly dysfunctional.
TV news shows us a third group – these are the lost souls that are interviewed whenever there is a shooting in the inner city or a plane crash in Oklahoma. These are the fractured remnants of the “lower class” – often looking very different, speaking very different and acting different than we are accustomed.
Real people don’t exist on TV. Real people only exist in the real world. Richard Russo provides a crystal clear picture of the people who inhabit the world outside the TV lens. These are the people who didn’t go to college, live in the town they were born in, are focused on surviving today not planning for their retirement in Florida – they shop (and work) at Wal-Mart and live a much different life that the suburban/urban TV producers and viewers.
The Risk Pool is a stellar, multi-dimensional perspective of characters that live on the fringe. No one is all good or all bad. We often make decisions about people based on how they talk, look, act or live – we are suspect of those who don’t “do it all” the way we do. Suburbanization has caused homogenization – we all want to cluster with others who are just like us. As time goes buy, we insulate ourselves further and further in pools of “likeness.” We judge, condemn and classify all others.
All men go through the same experiences, fears, challenges, doubts and struggles. Regardless of demographics, our pains are shared. The Risk Pool will open your eyes to men who live hard, love deeply, screw up regularly, violate normal behavior – but in so doing, reveal their hearts – and yours. Step outside yourself and give it a tumble – you won’t regret it.
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