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by: Richard Russo
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780679753339
ISBN: 0679753338
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 560
Publication Date: April 12, 1994
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: April 12, 1994
Sales Rank: 50825
Studio: Vintage
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Product Description:
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. Author reading tour.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - I love his writing..
I never want a Richard Russo book to end.
I mark passages in his books to read to others.
Rating: - Nobody's Fool
This settled it. Richard Russo deserves all the accolades there are to give.
Sully is a guy who hogs bad luck. He takes whatever work he can get (when he can get it), but an arthritic knee and the worker's comp people determine to make that a difficult task. He lives in a small-town that loves him and hates him and loves to hate him and hates to love him.
Typical small town.
Speaking of, Russo's characters are brilliant. They never do or say what you expect ... Read More
Rating:  - Funny then wordy
Russo sure does know how to make me laugh and he does a good job of it several times in this book. Yet, I got bored by several sections as descriptions of characters and their thoughts got overly wordy. I still got some good life lessons from this book. I learned that I need to take more risks in life and things will be ok no matter how bad off you are as long as you have friends.
Rating: - One of my all time favorites
I read this on the beach in Ixtapa. People had to have thought I had lost my mind, as I sometimes laughed so hard I cried. But, of course, the book is so much more than funny - it is a totally rounded book with off-beat, but believable characters.
Rating: - A wonderful novel
Empire Falls has received more kudos, but I think that this is Russo's best novel so far. True, it lacks the firmest of plot structures and tends to meander as it explores an always arresting (if sometimes pitiful or depressing) cast of major and minor characters and seemingly peripheral incidents in the down-on-its luck upstate NY burg of "Bath." But that meandering embodies precisely what is so rewarding. The interactions and dialogue between these tragicomic small-town characters is as sharply ... Read More
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