Ratting on Russo
Published on 30. June 2013
184 pages
978-0-9777082-8-4 (ISBN)
Description
In the East End of Pittsburgh of the late 1950s, outcast, accordion-playing Marty falls under the spell of his eighth-grade classmate, 16-year-old Russo, a lonely, working-class, car-crazy crooner. Deep in the post-war not-yet-rusted heart of bucolic Western Pennsylvania, what could go wrong?
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Alan Venable was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and lives in San Francisco. Ratting on Russo is his first novel. Previous fiction includes many titles for children, among them "The Checker Players," ("Intelligence and humor...It has that rare substance." --New York Times Book Review. "Charm and sense." --New York Magazine.)
