Straight Man

book that overflows with outsized characters and outlandish predicaments.
    Fiction/Literature/0-679-75383-4
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    Richard Russo
    That Old Cape Magic

    It’s the end of what seems like a perfectly lovely wedding weekend on the Cape, but for Griffin, the middle-aged father of the bride, it marks the beginning of his descent into a failed marriage, a confrontation with his parents’ deaths, and the realization that the life he has does not measure up to the life he thought he wanted. With moments of great comedy alternating with others of rueful understanding,
That Old Cape Magic
is unlike anything Richard Russo has ever written.
    Available August 2009 in hardcover from Knopf
$25.95 • 272 pages • 978-0-375-41496-1
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