In short, Straight Man is classic Russo–side-splitting and true-to-life, witty, compassionate, and impossible to put down. All this while coming to terms with his philandering father, the dereliction of his youthful promise, and the ominous failure of certain vital body functions. In the course of a single week, Devereaux will have his nose mangled by an angry colleague, imagine his wife is having an affair with his dean, wonder if a curvaceous adjunct is trying to seduce him with peach pits, and threaten to execute a goose on local television. Straight Man verá a Odenkirk dar el salto de un abogado sórdido en Nuevo México, atrapado entre capos de la droga, a interpretar a un jefe de departamento de inglés en una universidad de Rust. Its the story of Hank Devereaux, Jr., a career academic. Devereaux’s reluctance is partly rooted in his character–he is a born anarchist– and partly in the fact that his department is more savagely divided than the Balkans. And Russos currently writing a screenplay for Dreamworks based on his fourth novel, Straight Man. (Odenkirk) is the unlikely and reluctant chairman of the English department in an underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt.

Budgetary constraints have made it very tense on campus, within all the departments. Railton College, in Pennsylvania is where Devereaux is the temporary chairman of the English Department.

Russo’s protagonist is William Henry Devereaux, Jr., the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt. In the dramedy, from TriStar TV, William Henry Devereaux Jr. is an exasperating man, going through an exasperating time in his life. Synopsis: In this uproarious new novel, Richard Russo performs his characteristic high-wire walk between hilarity and heartbreak.

The straight man novel