On Helwig Street

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<p><i>Whoever said beggars cant be choosers, my grandfather would remark when she was out of earshot, never met your mother.</i></p><p>Jean Russo was a single mother in the 1950s, badly paid and living with her only son, Richard, in the upstairs apartment of her parents home on Helwig Street in Gloversville, New York.</p><p>When Richard left for University, Jean saw her chance to escape a dead-end town in search of a better life elsewhere. So began a series of ill-conceived adventures, as ambitious son and restless mother strove to find somewhere to belong.</p><p>Hilarious and heartbreaking, a story of growing up and of growing old, of becoming a man whilst remaining a son, of thinking that the grass is greener somewhere else, but knowing that going home is inevitable:<i>On Helwig Street</i>is a poignant tribute to a complicated mother and a brilliant evocation of mid-century America.</p>

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Richard Russo won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for his fifth novel,<i>Empire Falls</i>. He is also the author of<i>Mohawk</i>,<i>The Risk Pool</i>,<i>Nobodys Fool</i>,<i>Straight Man</i>,<i>Bridge of Sighs</i>and<i>That Old Cape Magic</i>, as well as a collection of stories,<i>The Whores Child</i>. His original screenplay is the basis for Rowan Atkinsons film<i>Keeping Mum</i>. He lives with his wife in Maine.

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