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A wonderfully funn and perceptive novel in the traditions of Thornton Wilder and Anne Tyler,
The Risk Pool is set in Mohawk, New York, where Ned Hall is doing his best to grow up, even though neither of his estranged parents can properly be called adult.
His father, Sam, cultivates bad habits so assiduously that he is stuck at the bottom of his auto insurance risk pool. His mother, Jenny, is slowly going crazy from resentment at a husband who refuses either to stay or to stay away. As Ned veers between allegiances to these grossly inadequate role models, Richard Russo gives us a book that overflows with outsized characters and outlandish predicaments and whose vision of family is at once irreverent and unexpectedly moving.
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Real Life ala Russo.......2007-08-23
I cannot begin to heap enough praise on the writing of Richard Russo. His look at life through the eyes of child forced into adulthood by his parents' economic and emotional shortcomings is a masterpiece. His sense of humor and pathos is wonderful and you'll find yourself crying from laughter and from sadness. His prose and insight are so genuine and moving. His characters are the stuff of real life as is the dialogue. I grew up near the town which inspired this book, and he doesn't miss an iota of the hopelessness that is the wreckage of an abandoned factory town. This is a funny book but not a happy one, but you'll be drawn in by the honesty and the enduring nature of these people and their efforts to meet life head-on whatever the consequences. His other books may have received more press and promo, but this is hands down one of my two favorites the other being "Empire Falls" His new novel gets released next month and I cannot wait.
There is something to be learned from Russo's characters.......2007-03-12
This is the second Richard Russo book I have read, and it is at least equally well written as the Pulitzer Prize winner Empire Falls. While Empire does drift into a full fledge plot drama in the last 1/3 of the novel, The Risk Pool stays on form as a character study of blue collar America. No shocking twist is needed to make this a great novel.
Russo likes to focus on one familial relationship and develop, expand and study this relationship without boring the reader. He does this mostly through narration instead of using long, drawn out descriptive writing. In the case of Empire Falls, Russo focused on the father / daughter relationship between Miles and Tick, while in The Risk Pool, Russo concentrates his attention on the father / son relationship between Sam and Ned Hall.
As a father and son myself, The Risk Pool affects me greatly. Although not perfect, I sympathize with Sam Hall the father. Sam a man who realizes he is fallible, unreliable and not a good father by anyone's standards. But at the end of the day, Sam does love his son, and shows it in simple ways, reminding me that the small things do matter in my own relationship with my daughters.
Ned Hall, the son, reminds me of the importance of forgiveness. I am sure that everyone can find fault in even the best of parents. However, Ned is able to work through his own less than perfect father's faults and still maintain a pretty good relationship. Ned doesn't necessarily look past Sam's faults, and he understands that he does not want to be like his father or at least make the same mistakes, he simply allows his father into his life to a degree that is possible for both. He does not try to make the relationship with his father something it is not, or blame his father for not being something he can't.
The blue collar life described in this book may not seem appealing to many people, but there is something about it that makes me yearn for some semblance of that life (at least while reading the book.) Maybe it has to do with my background as a laid back Indiana boy transplanted to the fast paced lifestyle of the sometimes chilly (and I don't mean the weather) east coast. A book like this takes me back to the simpler days in the Midwest when life seemed just a little less stressful and people seemed just a little bit friendlier.
Overall, Russo just has the ability to make me feel good when I read his novels. Whether it is the refreshing relationships between parents and children or the tight knit sense of community, I'm not sure. I just think, at least while reading the book, that the place Russo writes about is a place I would like to be.
Russo is a natural.......2007-01-25
Many of the characters in THE RISK POOL will remind you of those in EMPIRE FALLS. There is the wastrel father, the dictatorial Catholic priest, the mother with the unhappy affair etc. But after about fifty pages this one takes on a different direction. The theme now has to do with a son's love for the wastrel father, despite himself. There is also a secondary theme about how we're all afraid we're going to end up just like our parents.
Russo structures the novel in sections. He uses a quote from the main character's maternal grandfather dividing the year into The Fourth of July, The Mohawk Fair, Eat the Bird, and Winter. At the beginning of the novel, Ned Hall is introduced to his father who had left his mother shortly after he was born. Then the father disappears, and when Ned meets him again he's in his early teens. Ned Hall, shows signs of neurosis, as he steals from an apartment store for the sake of stealing, and later, loses money gambling, apparently on purpose. Russo lets us figure out for ourselves what's going on with him. Hall goes away to college, but returns to Mohawk when his father's new girlfriend calls, telling him his father needs him. Ned spends more and more time drinking with the old man. Around this time Ned has an affair with Tria, the daughter of the richest man in town, who, coincidentally, is afraid she's going to end up like her mother. Ned leaves and settles in New York City, where he takes a job as a junior editor at one of the big publishers. From time to time he returns to Mohawk to see his father. Their relationship is both funny and melancholy. Sam Hall is a very laconic man. His idea of a question is, "Well?" The funny part is Ned knows what he means.
The minor characters in this book are nothing short of Dickensesque. There's Wussie, real name Norm, Sam's best friend and drinking buddy; there's the 85-year-old bookie Untermeyer; there's insane, motorcyle maniac Drew Littler, the son of Sam's girlfriend Eileen, whom Sam can't stand; there's Andy Winkler, the diminutive cop who keeps getting beat up. There are dozens more, and they're all very recognizable if you're from a small town.
If you've never read Russo before, you're in for a treat. The man is a natural. Most of the book is written in first person narrative, which can lead to a whole lot of telling. There are few dramatic scenes in THE RISK POOL, but you will barely notice. What's even more impressive is that Russo doesn't settle for a happy ending, even though in some respects, it is.
Risk Pool-Best of Russo So Far.......2006-05-06
With "Empire Falls" winning a Pulitzer Prize and being made into an HBO movie with a star-studded cast, it would be natural to assume that Empire Falls is the best book that Richard Russo has written yet. I tend to think that just as sometimes an Academy Award is given to an actor or director for a body of work rather than for their best work, Russo winning the Pulitzer falls into this same category. Empire Falls is very good, but Russo fans might argue that Nobody's Fool, Straight Man or Risk Pool might be even better.
Personally, I think Risk Pool is Russo's best book for three reasons. First, Sam Hall is the best main character in any Russo book to date (with Sully from Nobody's Fool being a close second). There is much to dislike about Sam Hall's actions and he'll never win any "Father of the Year" contests, but Russo somehow wins you over to liking Sam Hall and forgiving him (as his son, Ned Hall does) for his many sins. Second, Russo's greatest strength as a writer is in his minor characters and Risk Pool again has the most numerous and best developed cast of minor characters that add alot of richness to the book. Third, Risk Pool probably has the most mystery of any of Russo's other books, with numerous subplots and minor characters that do not always get neatly resolved. Unlike other of Russo's books, there is a little more room in Risk Pool for speculation as to what "might" have happened.
Having seen "Nobody's Fool" already made into a solid Hollywood movie and "Empire Falls" made into an HBO movie, I am somewhat surprised that Risk Pool also has not received consideration for movie treatment.
Growing to manhood in Mohawk..........2006-04-21
Richard Russo is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors, and I think that The Risk Pool is his best book yet. Weighing in at 479 pages, I read The Risk Pool with a deliberate slowness so that I could savor every mouthful.
The Risk Pool opens in the depressed and dying fictional town of Mohawk, NY (a town that he will use again in his book by the same name). Told in the first person, it opens when Ned Hall is a six year old, living with his mother, Jenny Hall. His father, Sam Hall, returned from World War II to "drink and whore and play the horses." While Jenny thought he would grow tired of such celebrating, Sam never did. Instead, this happy-go-lucky ne'er-do-well lived his life as if he "should have been issued with a warning label."
Jenny felt that Sam was toxic, and she did everything in her power to keep Sam away from Ned. During times when he was forced to assume parenting responsibilities, Sam and his buddies could have done worse. Ned was a smart boy, but it took him many years to come to terms with his wayward dad and to learn the lessons he could teach about life, love, jobs, friendships, money, and most especially, women. Ned not only had to learn these lessons, but had to do so without actually becoming his father. In the process, he learns that Sam's world was more realistic than Jenny's world would ever be. He also learned most of these lessons in a non-verbal manner. "If we had too much time and too little to do, we'd be tempted to talk to each other. Say things, about then, and now, and why, and why not."
Russo is a master at describing the complex relationships between fathers and sons. He also writes in a richly moving prose with a very distinctive voice. He often reminds me of Pat Conroy, but with a more simplistic take on life. He describes fishing as "about the best thing there is until you're older and can do some other stuff, and it's better than most of the other stuff too." About being a man-"We tended to the business of being men, brown sweating bottles of beer lined up in phalanxes, bought not as needed, but in rounds, the real drinkers setting a pace, like the lead runners in a road race, finding a stride, feeling instinctively the race's length, its rhythms." The last third of the book is especially strong and incredibly moving and poignant as Ned learns to deal with becoming his own man. But Russo knows better than to take himself too seriously, and The Risk Pool is also filled with self-deprecating humor and a good number of belly laughs.
Russo has not only become one of my very favorite writers, but The Risk Pool has become one of my favorite books. I only wish that Russo wrote them a little faster.
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During his lifetime Jack Smith was a legendary playwright, critic, and filmmaker with a small, but faithful cult following. His movie masterpiece Flaming Creatures defined avant-garde cinema in the 1960s. This collection of interviews, essays, and play scripts brings together most of Smith's unpublished work. With his sharp wit, shrewd observations, and radical aesthetics, Smith--who died of AIDS in 1989--is now viewed by many as an innovative founding father of post-modern performance and gay sensibility. Smith's work is still shocking and Wait For Me at the Bottom of the Pool is indispensable for anyone interested in contemporary theater and film.
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Risk Pool
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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on November 3, 1997. The length of the article is 624 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: AAU creates space insurance pool. (Associated Aviation Underwriters Inc. creates Associated Aerospace Underwriters)
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National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 3, 1997
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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on February 7, 1994. The length of the article is 470 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
From the supplier: New Jersey Insurance Commissioner Samuel Fortunato's order that auto insurance companies pay $439 million to help pay for the state's Market Transition Facility's debt has been blocked by a court challenge led by the American Insurance Association (AIA). The Market Transition Facility, the state's assigned risk auto insurance pool, has a debt exceeding $900 million. The AIA's challenge to Fortunato's order was based on the assertion that the facility's deficit was caused by artificially low premiums set by the commissioner.
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Murder Served Piping Hot
Minister's wife, sometime sleuth, and culinary artist Faith Sibley Fairchild is intrigued by rumors of mysterious doings at Hubbard House -- an elegant, secluded retirement home for the well-heeled Yankees of Aleford, Massachusetts. Determined to do some surreptitious snooping, she joins the pricey retreat's flu-depleted kitchen staff, only to witness an aging resident collapse face-first into a bowl of Faith's hot and savory bouillon. But it isn't until a blackmailing drug dealer turns up dead in Faith's bedroom that the amateur investigator realizes that Murder not only happens at Hubbard, it's the specialty of the house! And Faith's own demise might very well be the next item on the menu.
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How did this happen?.......2005-06-10
I started with the Faith Fairchild series part-way through. Looking for some not-so-serious reading material after a lot of non-fiction, I decided to go back and try a couple of earlier books in this series. I couldn't get into one of them much at all (Vestibule), but figured that was ok, as it was somewhat atypical.
Bouillon was more standard (being set in Aleford helped). I would have just let this one go without a review as "Not great, not bad, worked as intended to fill miscellaneous time (bus rides, etc.)." What's the problem? I'm not politically correct by any stretch of the imagination, but the depiction of Chief Coffin of Byford struck me hard. He is no longer up to the job, yet the townspeople cannot bring themselves to let him go. The author explains this away as a "Yankee" thing - I'd say, perhaps, a small town thing instead. I found myself cheering for him when he is outright nasty to Faith. I was left wondering if the editor challenged this character at all. I would have done so.
Bottom line: Ms. Page's writing matures as the series progresses. The books are not really dependent on each other ("Fjord" restricts Faith's roles to a couple of cameo appearances). Consider skipping the first few books if you're new to the series, and don't go back if you missed those.
a delightful concoction --.......2001-10-18
The adventures of Faith Fairchild make for rather low-key but very enjoyable reading; the characters are true-to-life and above, all, real. The plots make sense and are intricately woven into the lifestyle of the residents of Aleford, Massachusetts.
Faith Sibley was an up-and-coming caterer in Manhattan when she met and married Tom Fairchild, a minister. This new lifestyle wasn't totally strange to her, as her father and grandfather had been ministers, as well. It was the New England part of the equation that was the jolt, but gradually the small town charm began to take hold, as did her transplanted catering business 'Have Faith'. The birth of their son, Benjamin, made life wonderful, until the first murder in THE BODY IN THE BELFRY.
Now, it's two-and-a-half years later, coming on for Christmas--the busiest time in the church--and in this story, a large old estate in a nearby town has been converted to a residence for the well-heeled older citizens of the area. Run by a doctor, Roland Hubbard, plus his son and daughter, the genteel establishment should apparently have no problems. But a friend of Faith's Aunt Charity has discovered something, and mentioned it in a letter to her, but without any explanation. And then, suddenly, he dies. Aunt Chat asks Faith to please find out what went wrong.
When Faith seizes on the idea of visiting another resident acquaintance, she is taken for kitchen help, as the staff is temporarily overcome with the flu. She decides to go along with the idea, until the person she was going to visit collapses into the bouillion she had prepared.
An invitation to the Christmas Ball by the 'Pink Ladies' Volunteers takes Faith and Tom to Boston for the evening, and provides an introduction to the rest of the Hubbard family as well as various staff members, some of whom are definitely on the eyebrow-lifting side. As winter begins to settle in, preparations are underway for the church's Christmas season, not to mention all the holiday cooking and shopping, and Faith is kept busy with all the activity.
Her car slides off the road during a blizzard, necessitating a stay overnight at Hubbard House. What a terrific opportunity to do some exploring! But, when Faith returns to her room, she finds it occupied. By a corpse. Following so close after an accidental fall by one of the Pink Ladies, it's time to call in the forces of law.
The presence of John Dunne, a Detective Lieutenant of the State Police, plus Charley MacIsaac, the local police chief ensures a thoughtful conclusion. Indeed, you could do a lot worse than to embark on this series of life (and the occasional murder or two) in a small town in New England. I think you'll be glad that you did. My librarian recommended the first book to me, and I'm certainly happy I followed her advice.
Residents of a retirement home expire prematurely.......2000-12-04
Faith Fairchild is asked by her Aunt Chat to investigate a nearby retirement home where a friend has died mysteriously. Faith is only too glad to oblige and is soon taken on as a volunteer in the kitchen, a job for which her former life as a caterer has well prepared her. Soon there are other mysterious deaths and accidents. The staff of the nursing home includes some very suspicious characters and Faith is soon up to her chef's cap in suspects. As usual in this series, Faith stumbles onto the true perpetrators in a somewhat accidental fashion. After almost being killed herself, Faith emerges with another solved mystery under her belt.
I can feel the snow blowing from here!.......1999-07-29
Fun book about what you always suspected went on in little towns. Loved the description of the snow.
What kept me going back to this book was the way the minister and his wife acted; both to each other and to others. People tend to put ministers, priests, rabbis, etc. up on pedestals. Faith and Tom Fairchild are allowed to be Human. She is distracted in church by the case, she has unchristian thoughts regarding various obnoxious characters, and she likes to indulge herself in designer clothes and gourmet cooking. She and her husband even have a real sex life! Egads! Yet, she is there for a friend in need or a parishioner. It was a little shocking to me at first (a southern fried Baptist), yet when thinking about it, it was nice to see a minister & his wife being Human instead of Holy. You can do both without being a hyprocrit; difficult, but do-able.
The book is great! Go get it and enjoy!
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Do you want to look good in a bathing suit this year? Do you want to have a firm, flat stomach? Do you have "problem areas" that need to be toned and shaped up? Do you want to get rid of cellulite?
Hit the Spot! is a complete program to target and tone your problem areas, written in an upbeat, easy-to-follow style by America's #1 fitness authority, Denise Austin.
Denise Austin has spent her career helping people get energetic and fit, and now she zeroes in on the problem areas that cause the most concern for people. Hit the Spot! includes clear instructions and photos for exercises to firm and shape your:
Waist/ Hips and Thighs/ Upper Arms and Bust/ Buns
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Don't be afraid to wear that sexy suit on the beach this summer...Hit the Spot!
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Excellent and well-written.......2002-12-05
This book is an excellent resource. It gives you many variations of exercises as well as a variety of exercises for your total body. Denise writes in a positive and motivating up-beat style. She includes photos of start and finish exercises for each exercise. My only complaint is that a start position for one exercise starts on one page of the book and the finish position is on the next page so you have to flip the page to view (but this is only for some of the exercises pictured; Denise manages to put the start-finish positions of most exercises on the same page).
If You Buy Only One Exercise Book, Make It This One!.......2001-09-04
Versatile, convenient, informative, and easily understood. These are the four adjectives I would use to descibe this wonderful book. We are all educated people, we know that we need 3-4 days of cardiovascular work (walking, jogging, step aerobics, what have you) at 20-30 minutes a pop to help with fat loss. However, if you are thinking that just cardiovascular exercise will do it, you're wrong. You need to strength train your muscles, and this book is the bible for it. If you want long, lean muscles, buy this book. Having lower back pain? Wait for the pain to subside, get the dr.'s okay, and then buy this book. There are back strengthening exercises in here for all of us Linda-Carter-Wannabees (a.k.a. Wonder Woman) who conquer college, career, marriage and children. You need this book to feel better, look better, and gain that confidence you had when you were 16 in the dance recital. You need this book if you are a beginner, an intermediate exerciser, or an 'ol pro. People have mentioned that this book is detailed....that's an understatement. This book gives you explicit information on breathing during exercises, proper form, and the speed at which to execute the exercises. Yes, it's that good. Just as others have mentioned, Denise Austin's heart is in the right place. However, during her videos (of which I own at least 10), she may do 16 repetitions on the left leg, and then quickly change to the right leg. On the right leg, however, she may only do 12 repetitions! That annoys me, thus, I tend to shy away from the videos these days. However, with the book, YOU control the repetitions. You don't have to pause and rewind...you don't have to wait for cues that won't come, and finally, you don't have to deal with beats and rhythms (Denise has a hard time following those, too). So, on a final note, I give this book the ultimate praise. Run to your nearest book store and purchase it, or buy it right here, right now!
I absolutely love this book!.......2001-07-22
I have been using this book off and on for over 2 years now. I keep going back to this book when I need to lose weight and tone-up. The exercises are easy to follow and can be as challenging or low-intensity as you make it. I have trouble following other exercise books/videos and really recommend this to anyone who wants to lose weight and tone-up different areas of their body. Of course to lose weight you have to add aerobic exercise (fast walking/other) as she stresses in this book. I recommend this book for any age, but I'm 40 and find this book one of the easiest to follow and the best, so far, for me.
An excellent book........2001-07-06
I own all the 'Hit the Spot' videos and have used them for years. This book has more or less all of the same great exercises. There is a lot of variety- she gives many variations to work the same muscle so you can pick and choose what you like. She also shows all different levels so you can start with this book as a beginner and still use it at an advanced level.In her videos, Denise often does an imbalanced set between right side and left side. She also tends to jump to the next exercise without any break. With the book I can work at my own pace and do the proper sets. Some complaints: the book doesn't stay open easily. I took the pages apart and put them in report cover sheets and a binder. Also, find out how to stretch all your muscles after you've worked them. This book shows stretches but does not cover stretches for all the muscles you work. This book could advise more about proper breathing and the pace to work at. But just find that out somewhere else and you'll be fine.
A wonderful investment!.......2001-06-18
This is another book of Denise Austin's that I highly recommend! There are exercises in here that I started doing shortly after I got the book and read it all the way through. The exercises that I did I started noticing results within 3 weeks from the time I first started doing the exercise. I had the increase my resistance from time to time but, the exercises still work to this day! I highly recommened!
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