Russo’s latest brings back the magic

Book review for That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo for The Commercial Appeal blog, “The Shelf Life.”

August 25, 2009

Richard Russo is a man obsessed with bridges. In his novels, these bridges are largely symbolic, spanning the chasm of emotions and responsibility that men feel, bridges they must cross on the road to coming to terms with divorce, death, estranged children, age and loss.

In his previous novel, Bridge of Sighs, and his latest, That Old Cape Magic (Alfred A. Knopf, $26), those bridges, while still metaphoric, have become quite real … (read more)