Empire Falls - (Vintage Contemporaries) by Richard Russo (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In this droll, unsentimental, and occasionally hilarious bestselling novel, Russo tells the story of a big-hearted man who becomes the unlikely hero of a small town with a glorious past but a dubious future.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Winner of the Pulitzer Prize <p/>"Russo writes with a warm, vibrant humanity.... A stirring mix of poignancy, drama and comedy." <i>--The Washington Post</i></b> <p/>Welcome to Empire Falls, a blue-collar town full of abandoned mills whose citizens surround themselves with the comforts and feuds provided by lifelong friends and neighbors and who find humor and hope in the most unlikely places, in this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Richard Russo. <p/> Miles Roby has been slinging burgers at the Empire Grill for 20 years, a job that cost him his college education and much of his self-respect. What keeps him there? It could be his bright, sensitive daughter Tick, who needs all his help surviving the local high school. Or maybe it's Janine, Miles' soon-to-be ex-wife, who's taken up with a noxiously vain health-club proprietor. Or perhaps it's the imperious Francine Whiting, who owns everything in town-and seems to believe that "everything" includes Miles himself. In <b>Empire Falls</b><i> </i>Richard Russo delves deep into the blue-collar heart of America in a work that overflows with hilarity, heartache, and grace.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Rich, humorous, elegantly constructed . . . Easily Mr. Russo's most seductive book thus far."-<i>The New York Times </i> <p/>"Russo writes with a warm, vibrant humanity.... A stirring mix of poignancy, drama and comedy." <i>--The Washington Post</i> <p/>"Russo is one of the best novelists around." -<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>"The history of American literature may show that Richard Russo wrote the last great novel of the 20th century." -<i>Christian Science Monitor</i> <p/>"Nobody does small-town life better than Richard Russo." <i>-Atlanta Journal-Constitution</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>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.</p>
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