Straight Man, by Richard Russo and Tenure, by Mike Million

William Henry "Hank" Devereaux Jr. and Charlie Thurber are two people lost in the political field of undergraduate departments. The main character of "straight man", Richard Russo novel, British professor and critic son, William Henry "Hanche" Divia, a road that wrote a novel "off" in his early career, but he did nothing There was not. Since then. Hank likes to believe that his life is Occam's razor, his complexity still exists. In the face of rumors of retreat and temporary dismissal, he is a reluctant interim president of a small town university in Pennsylvania state, and he is facing staff transformation.

Richard Russo wrote a novel for those who are afraid to become parents. Emotions of the "Old Cape Magic" and the feelings of feeling that Woody Allen feels like playing Hamlet were repelled by his mother and father and fascinated by his mother and father. After a huge American life epic "Imperial Falls" and "Sigh Bridge", Russo's new book looks particularly intimate, a romantic comedy from Pulitzer Prize winner's indigestion, his common neuropathic bitter Humorous learning sense is very impressed.

Of course, books on middle-aged people experiencing middle-aged crisis are long, but through this introspective genre Russo gets more comedy than John Updike, Richard Ford or Chang-rae Li. He is a master of comic satire and a ridiculous situation. As he showed earlier, in particular straight, this is one of the most interesting college novels in history, he can become a clown when he wants. The climax of "The Old Horn Magic" is a free scene at Steve Martin's wedding hall, including failures, clumsy boxing, runway outside the wheelchair.

In the opera, they said that the tragedy ends with a funeral and the comedy ends at the wedding ceremony. Richard Russo's new novel "Old Cape Magic" soon declared himself: it was all the first wedding, and of course the wedding. Russo has written six novels including "Imperial Falls" previously awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and we are starting to look forward to some: complex plotline constraints, deep relationships with places, and great I am struggling with eye character and his love page. "Old Cape Magic" was not disappointed

In one of his more difficult novels such as "Straight Man" and "Sigh Bridge", Russia said Jacques and his parents could not find his peace through their ruthless sarcasm and self-critical intelligence You can achieve. But Jack believes he is beyond the arc of the story, but the decisive 3rd act is decided and is the happy ending of the "crafted script". The death of Venice is not so. Instead, it is a middle-aged RomCom full of humor and assurance. Why do you insist that all the novels are enthusiastic about tragic disillusionment? There is enough old Cape Magic to entertain most readers before the movie comes out.