5/19/2023 0 Comments The straight man novel![]() Or does it? Perhaps his absent father has had more influence that he admits. It all starts in a meeting where he is nasally mangled by a colleague. A certain week in April sees him enduring quite a variety of trials, both mental and physical. William Henry Devereaux Jnr, (Hank) at almost fifty, is interim chairman of the English department at the (chronically underfunded) West Central Pennsylvania University in Railton. Straight Man is the fourth novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, Richard Russo. ![]() ![]() "What ails people is never simple, and William of Occam, who provided mankind with a beacon of rationality by which to view the world of physical circumstance, knew better than to apply his razor to the irrational, where entities multiply like strands of a virus under a microscope" ![]()
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