The Whore's Child

moviemaker confronts his dead wife’s lover and abruptly realizes the depth of his own passion. As his parents’ marriage disintegrates, a precocious fifth-grader distracts himself with meditations on baseball, spaghetti, and his place in the universe. And in the title story, an elderly nun enters a college creative writing class and plays havoc with its tidy notions of fact and fiction.
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FIRST VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES EDITION, JULY 2003
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©
2002 by Richard Russo
    â€œThe Whore’s Child” was originally published in
Harper’s
. “Monhegan
Light” was originally published in
Esquire
. “The Farther You Go”
was originally published in
Shenandoah
. “Joy Ride” was originally
published in
Meridian
. “Poison” was originally published in
Kiosk
.
“Buoyancy” was originally published in
High Infidelity
, ed. John
McNally (William Morrow, 1997).
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    The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Russo, Richard, [date]
The whore’s child and other stories / Richard Russo.
p. cm.
    I. Title.
PS3568.U812 W48 2002
813’.54—dc21 2002019023
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