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 |