Straight Man A Novel

Description: Hilarious and true - to - life witty compassionate and impossible to put down Straight Man follows Hank Devereaux through one very bad week in this novel from the Pulitzer Prize - winning author of Empire Falls. Now the AMC Original Series Lucky Hank. William Henry Devereaux Jr. is the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt. Devereaux's reluctance is partly rooted in his character he is a born anarchist and partly in the fact that his department is more savagely divided than the Balkans. In the course of a single week Devereaux will have his nose mangled by an angry colleague imagine his wife is having an affair with his dean wonder if a curvaceous adjunct is trying to seduce him with peach pits and threaten to execute a goose on local television. All this while coming to terms with his philandering father the dereliction of his youthful promise and the ominous failure of certain vital body functions. In short Straight Man is classic Russo side - splitting poignant compassionate and unforgettable. Look for Richard Russo's new book Somebody's Fool coming soon.
Title: Straight Man A Novel
Barcode: 9780375701900
Publication Date: 6/9/1998
Series: Vintage Contemporaries