The Risk Pool is a thirty-year journey through the lives of Sam Hall, a small-town gambling hellraiser, and his watchful, introspective son Ned. When Ned's mother Jenny suffers a breakdown and retreats from her husband's carelessness into a dream world, Ned becomes part of his father's seedy nocturnal world, touring the town's bars and pool halls, struggling to win Sam's affections while avoiding his sins.
| ISBN: | 9780099276494 |
| Publication date: | 4th June 1998 |
| Author: | Richard Russo |
| Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 479 pages |
| Genres: |
Family Drama Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
The Risk Pool is a thirty-year journey through the lives of Sam Hall, a small-town gambling hellraiser, and his watchful, introspective son Ned. When Ned's mother Jenny suffers a breakdown and retreats from her husband's carelessness into a dream world, Ned becomes part of his father's seedy nocturnal world, touring the town's bars and pool halls, struggling to win Sam's affections while avoiding his sins.
The Risk Pool features in the following genres: Family Drama, Modern and Contemporary Fiction
The Risk Pool is available in Paperback
The Risk Pool was written by Richard Russo and published by Vintage an imprint of Random House
The Risk Pool has 479 pages
£17.09