New York (AP) Pulitzer Prize Excellent writer Richard Russo I S The youngest author who is to be welcomed to the inner circle of Oprah Winfrey Book club picks.
Winfrey announced on Tuesday that she had chosen Russo's “Bridge of Seufhs”, a 2007 novel that concentrated in a rural New York community. Russo has a big one Paul Newman; And “Empire Falls”, winner of the Pulitzer in 2002 and the basis for an HBO series with Newman and his wife Joanne Woodward.
Winfrey often chooses new books for her club, but sometimes searched for older publications, from Toni Morrison's “The Bluest Eye” for John Steinbeck's “East of Eden”.
“Of course, it is a profound honor to be selected for Oprah's book club,” said Russo in an explanation. “But to be selected for a novel that was written two decades earlier? A book that presents a completely new generation of readers in my work? How special is that?”
A conversation between Winfrey and Russo, which recently takes place in a Starbucks in Seattle, can be seen on the YouTube channel from Winfrey and other outlets in which podcasts are broadcast. Starbucks is the current partner of the Winfreys Buchclub, which she founded in 1996.
On Tuesday, Winfrey made an explanation in which “Bridge of the Sigh” was praised as a “classic summer reading” with “romanticism, unrequited love, lifelong friendships and natural-epic family drama”.
“If you are a fan of Richard Russo or discover it for the first time, your opportunity to read one of the most popular writers in America,” she added.