NEW YORK (AP) — Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Russo i s the most recent creator to be welcomed into the interior circle of Oprah Winfrey guide membership picks.
Winfrey introduced Tuesday that she had chosen Russo’s “Bridge of Sighs,” a 2007 novel centered in a rural New York group. Russo has set a lot of his work in small, Northeastern cities, together with “Nobody’s Fool,” later tailored right into a film of the identical identify that starred Paul Newman; and “Empire Falls,” winner of the Pulitzer in 2002 and the idea for an Emmy-winning HBO sequence that featured Newman and his spouse, Joanne Woodward.
Winfrey typically chooses new books for her membership, however has at occasions regarded to older releases, from Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” to John Steinbeck’s “East of Eden.”
“It is, of course, a profound honor to be chosen for Oprah’s Book Club,” Russo mentioned in an announcement. “But to be chosen for a novel written two decades earlier? A book that will introduce a whole new generation of readers to my work? How special is that?”
A dialog between Winfrey and Russo, held lately at a Starbucks in Seattle, might be seen on Winfrey’s YouTube channel and on different retailers the place podcasts are aired. Starbucks is the present accomplice for Winfrey’s guide membership, which she based in 1996.
On Tuesday, Winfrey issued an announcement praising “Bridge of Sighs” as a “classic summer read,” with “romance, unrequited love, life-long friendships, and naturally — epic household drama.”
“If you’re a fan of Richard Russo or discovering him for the first time, here’s your opportunity to read one of America’s most beloved writers,” she added.
