Straight Man
| Year of Publication |
1997
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
391 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Author | |
| Publisher |
Random House
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| City |
New York
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| Abstract |
Follows Hank Devereaux, a tenured English professor nearing 50 and interim chair of English at the fictitious West Central Pennsylvania University. Hank's midlife crisis includes a wife who is having an affair; a feminist poet who tortures him; a department secretary who is a better writer than he is; and an academic father who gave Hank low self-esteem.
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| Notes |
Altoona is disguised as Railton.
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| Author Biography |
Richard Russo (1949— ), born in Johnstown, New York, earned a PhD at the University of Arizona. His novel Empire Falls won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He lives in Maine.
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| Time |
1950s
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