Bibliographic Description
86.09.W025: Russo – Mohawk
[within compartment 6.3 x 10.7 cm] RICHARD RUSSO | MOHAWK | [below compartment] VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES | [rule 10.7 cm] | Vintage Books | A Division of Random House | New York
A Vintage Original, September 1986, First Edition
216 leaves, pp. [8] 1–2 3-230 231–232 233-418 [6]
Contents: π1a blurb and author photo, π1b blank, π2a title, π2b imprint, π3a dedication, π3b blank, π4a epigraph, π4b blank, 1-418 Mohawk: 1-230 “[within frame 6.3 x 10.7 cm] PART | ONE”, 231-418 “[within frame 6.3 x 10.7 cm] PART | TWO”; χ1a blank, χ1b blank, χ2a about the author, χ2b blank, χ3a blank, χ3b blank.
Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Rick Lovell; interior author photo uncredited.
Copyright: ©1986. ISBN: 0-394-74409-8. Price: $6.95. Mohawk was first published by Vintage Contemporaries, 1986.
Copies: JDP 1.1 (presumed)
Blurbs
- (front cover) The book is too skillful for a first novel. – John Irving
- What makes Richard Russo so admirable as a novelist is that his natural grace as a storyteller is matched by his compassion for his characters. Mohawk offers a reader the authority of a documentary—yet the novel is full of comic invention. Russo’s grim but loving sense of place, his understanding of the rural poor, provides this fine novel with as sympathetic a vision as Ernest Hebert’s The Dogs of March; Russo’s affection for lonely, unexpressed lives is as moving, and as sorrowful, as the work of Richard Yates. But Mohawk is also lively reading; it is a painful story, yet it is told with great mischief—and the triumphs and tragedies of the characters are enhanced, as victories and defeats always are, by wit. – John Irving
- Richrd Russo is so good you never want the party to end, the band to quit….He has the firm touch of a growing master. – Barry Hannah
- I know of no novel in recent years so truly American, so fully peopled, so traditional without the merest nostalgia for novels or times that never were, or so ascendant. Mohawk is singular, and brilliant. – Bill Buford, Granta