The Risk Pool
Author: Russo, Richard
ISBN: 9780099276494
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 06 Nov 1998
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback / softback
The Pulitzer-prizewinning novelist's cautionary tale of failed fathers and the sons who idolise them.
The Risk Pool is a thirty-year journey through the lives of Sam Hall, a small-town gambling hellraiser, and his watchful, introspective son Ned. When Ned's mother Jenny suffers a breakdown and retreats from her husband's carelessness into a dream world, Ned becomes part of his father's seedy nocturnal world, touring the town's bars and pool halls, struggling to win Sam's affections while avoiding his sins.
ISBN: 9780099276494
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 06 Nov 1998
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback / softback
The Pulitzer-prizewinning novelist's cautionary tale of failed fathers and the sons who idolise them.
The Risk Pool is a thirty-year journey through the lives of Sam Hall, a small-town gambling hellraiser, and his watchful, introspective son Ned. When Ned's mother Jenny suffers a breakdown and retreats from her husband's carelessness into a dream world, Ned becomes part of his father's seedy nocturnal world, touring the town's bars and pool halls, struggling to win Sam's affections while avoiding his sins.
