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Richard Russo

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.

Richard Russo

Imagination

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Richard Russo means that his books mourn a country that feels lost or changed so much that it might only live on in his personal memories and creative mind. He uses imagination to preserve and honor a version of the nation that may no longer be real.

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