Book description
A Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist turns to memoir in this "intimate and powerful" account (Chicago Tribune) of his lifelong bond with his high-strung, spirited motherāand the small town she spent her life trying to escape.Ā
Anyone familiar with RussoāsĀ novelsĀ will recognize Gloversvilleāonce famous for producing nine out of ten dressā¦
Why read it?
1 author picked Elsewhere as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
A memoir of his mother and his life in Glovershville, New York from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. It is utterly unfair that such a singular writer of fiction can be this deft at non-fiction. The best piece of advice I ever got as a writer was āMake your characters complicatedā¦ā Some characters, like Jean Russo, come complicated out of the factory. (By the way, Russo is a friend, and once told me at a book event in his honor that he felt like a fraud. So, I am in fine company).Ā
From Bill's list on that make me feel like an absolute fraud.
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