Name: Mohawk

Author: Richard Russo
Year: 1986
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9780375412868
9780679753827
0375412867
0679753826
Originally published in 1986 in the Vintage Contemporaries paperback series'€”and reissued now in hardcover alongside his masterful new novel, Empire Falls'€”Richard Russo'€™s Mohawk remains today as it was described then: A first novel with all the assurance of a mature writer at the peak of form and ambition, Mohawk is set in upstate New York and chronicles over a dozen lives in a leather town, long after the tanneries have started closing down. Ranging over three generations'€”and clustered mainly in two clans, the Grouses and the Gaffneys'€”these remarkably various lives share only the common human dilemmas and the awesome physical and emotional presence of Mohawk itself. For this is a town like Winesburg, Ohio or Our Town, in our time, that encompasses a plethora of characters, events and mysteries. At once honestly tragic and sharply, genuinely funny, Mohawk captures life, then affirms it. From the Hardcover edition.
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