Mohawk
by By Russo, Richard
Category: Fiction , Literary

Mohawk, New York, is one of those small towns that lie almost entirely on the wrong  side of the tracks. Its citizens, too, have fallen on hard times. Dallas Younger,  a star athlete in high school, now drifts from tavern to poker game, losing money,  and, inevitably, another set of false teeth. His ex-wife, Anne, is stuck in a losing  battle with her mother over the care of her sick father. And their son, Randall,  is deliberately neglecting his school work--because in a place like Mohawk it doesn't  pay to be too smart. In Mohawk, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Richard Russo, explores these lives with profound  compassion and flint-hard wit. Out of derailed ambitions and old loves, secret hatreds  and communal myths, he has created a richly plotted, densely populated, and wonderfully  written novel that captures every nuance of America's backyard.