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ABOUT CHANCES ARE . . .\n

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls comes a new revelation: a riveting story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship.
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\nOne beautiful September day, three men convene on Martha\u2019s Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. They couldn\u2019t have been more different then, or even today\u2013Lincoln\u2019s a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press publisher, and Mickey a musician beyond his rockin\u2019 age. But each man holds his own secrets, in addition to the monumental mystery that none of them has ever stopped puzzling over since a Memorial Day weekend right here on the Vineyard in 1971: the disappearance of the woman each of them loved\u2013Jacy Calloway. Now, more than forty years later, as this new weekend unfolds, three lives are displayed in their entirety while the distant past confounds the present like a relentless squall of surprise and discovery. Shot through with Russo\u2019s trademark comedy and humanity, Chances Are . . . also introduces a new level of suspense and menace that will quicken the reader\u2019s heartbeat throughout this absorbing saga of how friendship\u2019s bonds are every bit as constricting and rewarding as those of family or any other community.
\n     For both longtime fans and lucky newcomers, Chances Are . . . is a stunning demonstration of a highly acclaimed author deepening and expanding his remarkable achievement.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Richard Russo is the author of eight novels, most recently Everybody\u2019s Fool and That Old Cape Magic; two collections of stories; and the memoir Elsewhere. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which like Nobody\u2019s Fool was adapted to film, in a multiple-award-winning HBO miniseries; in 2016 he was given the Indie Champion Award by the American Booksellers Association; and in 2017 he received France\u2019s Grand Prix de Litt\xe9rature Am\xe9ricaine. He lives in Port\xadland, Maine.

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