Mohawk (42 page)

Untemeyer checked his wrinkled sheet. “Eight.”

Harry handed him sixteen dollars. “I got a powerful feeling about him.”

Untemeyer nodded, added Harry’s money to the thick roll and wrote out a slip. “He’s due, all right, that son-of-a-bitch.”

R
ICHARD
R
USSO
lives with his wife in Camden, Maine, and in Boston. In 2002 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for
Empire Falls
.

He is available for lectures and readings. For information regarding his availability, please visit
www.knopfspeakersbureau.com
or call 212-572-2013.

It’s the end of what seems like a perfectly lovely wedding weekend on the Cape, but for Griffin, the middle-aged father of the bride, it marks the beginning of his descent into a failed marriage, a confrontation with his parents’ deaths, and the realization that the life he has does not measure up to the life he thought he wanted. With moments of great comedy alternating with others of rueful understanding,
That Old Cape Magic
is unlike anything Richard Russo has ever written.

Available August 2009 in hardcover from Knopf

$25.95 • 272 pages • 978-0-375-41496-1

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