Strikes me as the funniest serious novel I have read since - well, maybe since ''Portnoy's Complaint.''Ĭomfortably, if complacently, married, and the father of two grown daughters, Hank Devereaux is a midcareer academic a month shy of his 50th birthday. The author of the novels ''Mohawk,'' ''The Risk Pool'' and ''Nobody's Fool,'' is interested in more than generating laughter, and ''Straight Man'' Stick a wisenheimer like him in a dour, paranoid college English department (has there ever been another kind?) and comedy can practically be guaranteed. can never swallow a quip or a saucy comeback, nor does he try to. He narrator of Richard Russo's hilarious fourth novel is a man whom nearly everyone finds exasperating.
More on Richard Russo from The New York Times Archives.Richard Russo's satirical novel takes place at a jerkwater college in Pennsylvania
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