Mohawk by Richard Russo [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1986 • Vintage Contemporaries

Mohawk by Richard Russo

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1986] VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES 

A Vintage Contemporaries trade paperback original.

1st printing featuring the iconic, signature V.C. mid-80's art-deco cover style. 

Vintage trade paperback in very good reading condition.   Lean to spine and some visible wear to cover.

Pages show some inevitable tanning but otherwise read beatifully.  *small name of orig. owner signed neatly atop front endpaper.

Originally published in 1986 in the Vintage Contemporaries paperback series— Richard Russo’s cult debut novel 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, New York, is one of those small towns that lie almost entirely on the wrong side of the tracks. Its citizens, too, have fallen on hard times. Dallas Younger, a star athlete in high school, now drifts from tavern to poker game, losing money. His ex-wife, Anne, is stuck in a losing battle with her mother over the care of her sick father. And their son, Randall, is deliberately neglecting his schoolwork - because in a place like Mohawk it doesn't pay to be smart.

Mohawk chronicles over a dozen lives in a decaying leather town in upstate New York. It is a picture of life which is true for the whole world, and once viewed, will never be forgotten.