Most of the characters are pretty unflattering, though I imagine sadly, realistic.
The writing is excellent – witty, well paced, and the main character well-drawn as just an everyday guy just trying to get by and make sense the world.Īll that said, it wasn’t until the last 100 pages that I really got into this book. Pulitzer prize-winning author Richard Russo’s Straight Man is a situation comedy in the vein of TV’s Fraser every time Henry tries to extricate himself from one bad situation, he ends up in a worse one. While fending off intradepartmental pettiness and politics in the face of looming layoffs, Henry has to sort out the breakup of his daughter and son-in-law, crushes on co-eds, jealous imaginings of his wife with other men, his threatening to kill a duck (while holding a goose) that gets broadcast on the local news, and a pecker that refuses to pee. is a wise-cracking interim chair of the English department of an unremarkable Pennsylvania college.
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