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THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF Copyright © 2012 by Richard Russo All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. www.aaknopf.com Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Russo, Richard, date. Elsewhere / by Richard Russo. — 1st ed. p. cm. eISBN: 978-0-307-95954-6 “This is a Borzoi book.” 1. Russo, Richard, 1949—Family. 2. Russo, Richard, 1949—Childhood and youth. 3. Novelists, American—Biography. 4. Gloversville (N.Y.)—Biography. I. Title. PS3568.U812Z46 2012 813′.54—dc23 [B] 2012016354 Cover photograph courtesy of the author Cover design by Jason Booher v3.1
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Page 6 and 7: Prologue A few years ago, passing t
Page 8 and 9: eal jukebox on the far wall. We alw
Page 10: was there to meet me in the afterno
Page 13 and 14: stretched on forever, with no optio
Page 15 and 16: together, holding herself together,
Page 17 and 18: walkable town with small markets on
Page 19 and 20: Instead they’d turn to me and ask
Page 21 and 22: etter than to ambush my mother and
Page 23: lazy, and she’d separated from my
Page 26 and 27: carefully budgeted the trip accordi
Page 28 and 29: through that she could barely lift
Page 30 and 31: dismemberment, let me in. “What a
Page 32 and 33: Schenectady plant was GE’s agship
Page 34 and 35: weeks, at the end of which she and
Page 36 and 37: cold beer. On Saturdays, around mid
Page 38 and 39: joining my classmates, as it kind o
Page 41 and 42: A Diagnosis D ON’T DO IT. That wa
Page 43 and 44: Being back in Gloversville worked f
Page 45 and 46: Barbara weren’t there. It was alm
Page 47 and 48: By the time the holidays rolled aro
Page 49 and 50: an accommodation my mother insisted
Page 51 and 52: FIVE YEARS LATER, in 1991, I was oe
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trying?” she said, her hands shak
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poring over the ads in the local pa
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taken more out of her than we knew,
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Unsettled T HAT’S YOURS, you know
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“You don’t have to go anywhere,
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Dot was one of my many reasons for
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every two weeks, whereas an author
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possibility, the very thing we shou
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Sweet. Barbara and Chris were in th
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vague nor cloudy, as you might expe
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coast, we were back in familiar ter
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what to tell you.” “I wish you
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In no time her ferocious, irrationa
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the more determined she was to wait
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surprisingly, given that she’d fe
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mother and grandmother weren’t th
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its terrible signicance, and if tha
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Real Time W HEN SHE OPENED the door
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that my mother had phoned to say sh
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them. Then we’re going to chat fo
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“It doesn’t look like she’ll
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“Actually, no, Mom, he won’t.
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could ever again be a reliable mean
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the same obsessive distance, the mi
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grandfather’s chair on Helwig Str
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to stretch out on her sofa, fearing
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course I wasn’t there and he migh
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more about with every new page of m
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old whose future could be stolen fr
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gone into a nursing home or died. W
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o of plumb, one card shy of a deck,
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like alcoholics and other addicts,
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possible that beneath my mean-spiri
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There’s something oddly sweet and
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Boston is located in the old Leathe
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that no matter how hard she tried,
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ALSO BY RICHARD RUSSO Mohawk The Ri
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