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Name: The Risk Pool
Author: Richard Russo
Year: 1988
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Genres/categories: Award winners, Fiction

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ISBN:
9780679753834
0679753834
Winner of the Society of Midland Authors Award for Adult Fiction in 1989.

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.
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