Richard Russo
Originally published in 1986 in the Vintage Contemporaries paperback seriesâ€”and reissued now in hardcover alongside his masterful new novel, ,Empire Falls,â€”Richard Russoâ€™s ,Mohawk, remains today as it was described then: A first novel with all the assurance of a mature writer at the peak of form and ambition, ,Mohawk, is set in upstate New York and chronicles over a dozen lives in a leather town, long after the tanneries have started closing down. Ranging over three generationsâ€”and clustered mainly in two clans, the Grouses and the Gaffneysâ€”these remarkably various lives share only the common human dilemmas and the awesome physical and emotional presence of Mohawk itself.,For this is a town like Winesburg, Ohio or ,Our Town,, in our time, that encompasses a plethora of characters, events and mysteries. At once honestly tragic and sharply, genuinely funny, Mohawk captures life, then affirms it.
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Mohawk