# The Risk Pool

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- Authors: [Richard Russo](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-russo)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2011-06-02

## Description

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.

## Editions

### The Risk Pool

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9927-649-4
- Pages: 496
- Published: 2011-06-02
- Language: en_GB

### The Risk Pool

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7975-383-4
- Pages: 496
- Published: 1994-04-12
- Language: en_US