Straight Man: A Novel Shardlake and his young protégé

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romantic farce" (starred review)

and achingly beautiful

Updated with original pieces from the entire Kingsolver clan

Straight Man: A Novel Shardlake and his young protégéHilarious and true to life, witty, compassionate, and impossible to put down, Straight Man follows Hank Devereaux through one very bad week in this novel from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Empire Falls. Now the AMC Original Series Lucky Hank. William Henry Devereaux, Jr., is the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt. Devereaux's reluctance is partly rooted in his characterhe is