Richard Russo | Bridge of Sighs
Recorded Oct 9, 2007
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Novelist Richard Russo is the author of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize winner Empire Falls, and the novels Mohawk and Straight Man, as well as the short story collection, The Whore’s Child. As a screenwriter he has co-authored scripts for the 1998 film Twilight and the 2005 film Ice Harvest. Bridge of Sighs is classic Russo, rich with small-town life and the claims of family, yet enlarged by the contrary motivations of a mesmerizing expatriate
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