Part 1 (1/2)

Elsewhere

by Richard Russo

Contents

Cover

title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Prologue

Independence

A Good Talking-To

A Diagnosis

Unsettled

Real Tiue

A few years ago, passing the sign on the New York State Thruway for the Central Leatherstocking Region, a friend of ht, That ht I'm from Gloversville, just a few miles north in the foothills of the Adirondacks, a place that's easy to joke about unless you live there, as some of my family still do

The toasn't always a joke In its heyday, nine out of ten dress gloves in the United States were manufactured there By the end of the nineteenth century, crafts gloves on a par with the finest overned by a guild, and you typically apprenticed, as randfather did, for two or three years The prilove-cutter's trade were his eye, his experience of aniave h I doubt he would've worded it like that-when he explained the challenge oftruly fine and beautiful froo to the cutter, skins are rolled and brushed and finished to ensure smooth uniformity, but inevitably they retain soave ures out how to incorporate the Each skin posed problelove-cutter's job wasn't just to get as loves as possible out of a hide but to do so whileits flaws