Finished Fr 1/13/23
...and I didn't want it to end. I loved this book and will try to find more by this author.
This is one of my ancient trad paperbacks that I had apparently never read.
Set in Mohawk, New York which is in upstate New York, halfway between Syracuse and Albany.
In broad strokes it is the relationship between a young man and his dissolute father. Dad never has a steady job, he is separated from his wife and they have a combative relationship and his son is caught in the middle.
The book is divided into four sections based on the grandfather's method of dividing the year:
1) July 4th; 2) Mohawk Fair; 3) Eat The Bird; 4) Winter
From the book's page at GoodReads:
"The Risk Pool is a thirty-year journey through the lives of Sam Hall, a small-town gambling Hellraiser, and his watchful, introspective son Ned. When Ned's mother Jenny suffers a breakdown and retreats from her husband's carelessness into a dream world, Ned becomes part of his father's seedy nocturnal world, touring the town's bars and pool halls, struggling to win Sam's affections while avoiding his sins."
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