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Nobody's Fool - (Vintage Contemporaries) by Richard Russo (Paperback)

Nobody's Fool - (Vintage Contemporaries) by  Richard Russo (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In his slyly funny and moving new novel, the author of The Risk Pool follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbeat, upstate New York town--and in the lives of the unluckiest of its citizens. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, and Jessica Tandy.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>This slyly funny, moving novel about a blue-collar town in upstate New York--and in the life of Sully, of one of its unluckiest citizens, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years--is a classic American story. <p/> Divorced from his own wife and carrying on halfheartedly with another man's, saddled with a bum knee and friends who make enemies redundant, Sully now has one new problem to cope with: a long-estranged son who is in imminent danger of following in his father's footsteps. With its uproarious humor and a heart that embraces humanity's follies as well as its triumphs, <i>Nobody's Fool</i>, from Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Richard Russo, is storytelling at its most generous. <p/> <i>Nobody's Fool </i>was made into a movie starring Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Jessica Tandy, and Melody Griffith.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Remarkable....A revelation of the human heart. -- <i>The Washington Post <p/></i>Russo is a master craftsman<i>....Nobody's Fool </i>is a big, rambunctious novel with endless riffs and unstoppable human hopefulness.<i> -- The Boston Globe <p/></i>Simple as family love, yet nearly as complicated, Richard Russo's confident, assured novel sweeps the reader up in the daily life of its characters. --<i> San Francisco Chronicle</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Richard Russo is the author of eight novels; two collections of stories; and<i> Elsewhere, </i>a memoir. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for <i>Empire Falls, </i> which like <i>Nobody's Fool </i>was adapted to film, in a multiple-award-winning HBO miniseries.

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