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One beautiful September day, three 66-six-year-old men convene on Martha’s Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college in the 1960s. They couldn’t have been more different then, or even today – Lincoln’s a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press publisher and Mickey an ageing rocker. But each man holds his own secrets, in addition to the monumental mystery that none of them has ever stopped puzzling over since 1971: the disappearance of their friend Jacy. Now, decades later, the distant past interrupts the present as the truth about what happened to Jacy finally emerges, forcing the men to reconsider everything they thought they knew about each other.
Shot through with Russo’s trademark comedy and humanity, Chances Are also introduces a new level of suspense and menace that will quicken the listener’s heartbeat throughout this absorbing saga of how friendship’s bonds are every bit as constricting and rewarding as those of family.
For both longtime fans and lucky newcomers, Chances Are is a stunning demonstration of a highly-acclaimed author deepening and expanding his remarkable body of work.
One beautiful September day, three 66-six-year-old men convene on Martha’s Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college in the 1960s. They couldn’t have been more different then, or even today – Lincoln’s a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press publisher and Mickey an ageing rocker. But each man holds his own secrets, in addition to the monumental mystery that none of them has ever stopped puzzling over since 1971: the disappearance of their friend Jacy. Now, decades later, the distant past interrupts the present as the truth about what happened to Jacy finally emerges, forcing the men to reconsider everything they thought they knew about each other.
Shot through with Russo’s trademark comedy and humanity, Chances Are also introduces a new level of suspense and menace that will quicken the listener’s heartbeat throughout this absorbing saga of how friendship’s bonds are every bit as constricting and rewarding as those of family.
For both longtime fans and lucky newcomers, Chances Are is a stunning demonstration of a highly-acclaimed author deepening and expanding his remarkable body of work.
Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Russo's first standalone novel in a decade is a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship.
Richard Russo lives in coastal Maine with his wife and their two daughters. He is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of five novels: Mohawk, The Risk Pool, Nobody's Fool, Straight Man and Empire Falls, and a collection of short stories, The Whore's Child. Fred Sanders has been seen on Broadway (The Buddy Holly Story), in national tours (Driving Miss Daisy and Big River) and on TV, including Seinfeld, The West Wing, Will & Grace, Numb3rs, Titus and Malcolm in the Middle. His films include Sea of Love, The Shadow and the Oscar-nominated short Culture. A native New Yorker and Yale graduate, he now lives in LA.
'Cleverly paced, Russo's latest novel folds page-turning suspense
into an unhurried, warmly observed portrait of friendship in later
life.'
*Mail on Sunday*
'Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Russo balances suspense
with comedy in this gripping tale.'
*TIME*
'There's much to enjoy in Richard Russo's typically nuanced
portrait of three childhood friends ... [a] fine-grained
exploration of troubled, small-town masculinity ... Russo's prose
is so quietly melodious you can almost hear it singing.'
*Daily Mail*
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