Richard Russo

Richard Russos slyly funny and moving novel follows the unexpected workings of grace in a deadbeat town in upstate New York - and in the life of one of its unluckiest citizens, Sully, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years. Divorced from his own wife and carrying on halfheartedly with another mans, 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 fathers footsteps. With its sly and uproarious humour and a heart that embraces humanitys follies as well as its triumphs, Nobodys Fool is storytelling at its most generous.

A master of the novel, short story and memoir, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Everybodys Foolnow gives us his very first collection of personal essays, thoughts on writing, reading and living. In these nine essays, Richard Russo provides insight into his life as a writer, teacher, friend and reader. From a commencement speech to the story of how an oddly placed toilet made him reevaluate the purpose of humour in art and life, to a comprehensive analysis of Mark Twains value, to his harrowing journey accompanying a dear friend as she pursued gender-reassignment surgery, The Destiny Thief reflects the broad interests and experiences of one of Americas most beloved authors. Warm, funny, wise and poignant, the essays included here traverse Russos writing life, expanding our understanding of who he is and how his singular, incredibly generous mind works. An utter joy to read, they give deep insight into the creative process from the perspective of one of our greatest writers.

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 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 its Janine, Miles soon-to-be ex-wife, whos taken up with a noxiously vain health-club proprietor. Or perhaps its the imperious Francine Whiting, who owns everything in town - and seems to believe that everything includes Miles himself. In Empire Falls Richard Russo delves deep into the blue-collar heart of America in a work that overflows with hilarity, heartache, and grace.

The great American master Richard Russo, at the very top of his game, returns to the characters who made Nobodys Fool (1993) a contemporary classic. Richard Russos new novel takes place in the decaying American town of North Bath over the course of a very busy weekend, ten years after the events of Nobodys Fool. Donald Sully Sullivan is trying to ignore his cardiologists estimate that he has only a year or two left. Ruth, his long-time lover, is increasingly distracted by her former son-in-law, fresh out of prison and intent on making trouble. Police chief Doug Raymer is tormented by the improbable death of his wife, while local wiseguy Carl Roebuck might finally be running out of luck. Filled with humour, heart and hard-luck characters you cant help but love, Everybodys Fool is a crowning achievement from one of the great storytellers of our time.

An immediate national best seller and instant classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls. Richard Russo returns to North Batha town where dishonesty abounds, everyone misapprehends everyone else and half the citizens are half-crazy (The New York Times)and the characters who made Nobodys Fool a beloved choice of book clubs everywhere. Everybodys Fool is classic Russo, filled with humor, heart, hard times, and people you cant help but love, possibly because their various faults make them so human. Everybodys Fool picks up roughly a decade since we were last with Miss Beryl and Sully on New Year's Eve 1984. The irresistible Sully, who in the intervening years has come by some unexpected good fortune, is staring down a VA cardiologists estimate that he has only a year or two left, and its hard work trying to keep this news from the most important people in his life: Ruth, the married woman he carried on with for years . . . the ultra-hapless Rub Squeers, who worries that he and Sully arent still best friends . . . Sullys son and grandson, for whom he was mostly an absentee figure (and now a regretful one). We also enjoy the company of Doug Raymer, the chief of police whos obsessing primarily over the identity of the man his wife mightve been about to run off with, before dying in a freak accident . . . Baths mayor, the former academic Gus Moynihan, whose wife problems are, if anything, even more pressing . . . and then theres Carl Roebuck, whose lifelong run of failing upward might now come to ruin. And finally, theres Charice Bonda light at the end of the tunnel that is Chief Raymers officeas well as her brother, Jerome, who might well be the train barreling into the station. A crowning achievementlike hopping on the last empty barstool surrounded by old friends (Entertainment Weekly)from one of the greatest storytellers of our time. From the Hardcover edition.

Richard Russo's new novel takes place in the decaying American town of North Bath over the course of a very busy weekend, ten years after the events of Nobody's Fool. Donald 'Sully' Sullivan is trying to ignore his cardiologist's estimate that he has only a year or two left. Ruth, his long-time lover, is still married to Zach and running Hattie's lunch counter, though she's increasingly distracted by her former son-in-law, fresh out of prison and intent on making trouble. Police chief Doug Raymer is obsessing over the identity of the man his wife might have been about to run off with before she died in a freak accident, while local wiseguy Carl Roebuck might finally be running out of luck. Add a funeral, an escaped cobra, a collapsed building and a lot of beer to the equation and you have a novel which is a pure pleasure to read - genuinely funny, enormously heartfelt and imbued with the warmth and wisdom that are Richard Russo's stock in trade

The great American master Richard Russo, at the very top of his game, returns to the characters who made Nobody''s Fool (1993) a contemporary classic.Richard Russo''s new novel takes place in the decaying American town of North Bath over the course of a very busy weekend, ten years after the events of Nobody''s Fool. Donald ''Sully'' Sullivan is trying to ignore his cardiologist''s estimate that he has only a year or two left. Ruth, his long-time lover, is increasingly distracted by her former son-in-law, fresh out of prison and intent on making trouble. Police chief Doug Raymer is tormented by the improbable death of his wife, while local wiseguy Carl Roebuck might finally be running out of luck.Filled with humour, heart and hard-luck characters you can''t help but love, Everybody''s Fool is a crowning achievement from one of the great storytellers of our time.

Los personajes de Russo en estos cuatro expansivos relatos tienen poco que ver con los obreros característicos de sus otras novelas. En Jinete, una profesora se enfrenta a un joven plagiario a la vez que a su propia debilidad mientras se avecina el día de Acción de Gracias. En Intervención, un agente inmobiliario con un ominoso informe médico se enfrenta a la sombra de su padre. En Voz, otro docente acude a la Biennale de Venecia semi-huyendo de cierto incidente con una traumatizada estudiante. Finalmente, en Milton y Marcus, un caduco novelista se pelea con la enfermedad de su esposa e intenta recuperar su carrera como guionista, a la vez que lo bloquean las meteduras de pata con cierta estrella madura.

"Richard Russo, en la cima de su maestría, regresa a North Bath, en el norte del estado de Nueva York, y a los personajes de Ni un pelo de tonto. El irresistible Sully, en cuyas manos ha caído una

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"El lector tardará años en olvidar esta excelente novela." SERGI PÀMIES, EL PAÍSSully tiene sesenta años y ni un pelo de tonto a pesar de que, como asegura uno de sus amigos, es el campeón de los ges

Two boys grow up in Thomaston, upstate New York. Louis Charles Lynch, aka Lucy, marries his childhood sweetheart and settles down to run a small empire of convenience stores. He's a good man, but he isn't always as reliable as he seems, and secretly longs for what he can't have. His best friend Bobb... Les mer

Following Bridge of Sighs_a national best seller hailed by The Boston Globe as "an astounding achievement" and "a masterpiece"_Richard Russo gives us the story of a marriage, and of all the other ties that bind, from parents and in-laws to children and the promises of youth.

Jack and Joy Griffin are back on Cape Cod - where they spent their hope-filled honeymoon - for a wedding. Cracks are begining to show in Jack's peaceful family life and thirty-four year marriage. He's driving round with his father's ashes in an urn in the boot of his car, haunted by memories of bittersweet family holidays spent at the Cape, while his ascerbic mother is very much alive and always on his mobile. He's spent a lifetime trying to be happier than his parents, but has he succeeded?

Thirty years ago and full of hope, on their Cape Cod honeymoon, Jack and Joy Griffin drafted the Great Truro Accord, a plan for their future thats now thirty years old and has largely been fulfilled. At the time they were living in Los Angeles, where Griffin wrote scripts that were already losing her imterest.

Una recopilación de 7 cuentos escritos por el ganador del Premio Pulitzer 2001.Una recopilación de 7 cuentos. El que da título a la colección trata de una monja que creció en un orfanato. Su padre venia a visitarla de vez en cuando y lo recuerda con mucha ilusion. En cambio, nunca conocio a su madre. La monja se inscribe a un taller de escritura y empieza a narrar sus recuerdos en una especie de diario. A lo largo de su reflexion, nos damos cuenta de que la niña, ahora monja, fue la hija de una prostituta y el hombre que venia a visitarla su chulo.

In this entrancing first collection of stories, a master storyteller focuses on a fresh and fascinating range of human behaviour, revealing himself as an even more versatile and accomplished writer than his acclaimed novels have shown. As with all Russo's characters, we warm to these newcomers almost in spite of themselves. In the title story, a septuagenarian nun resolutely invades the narrator's college writing workshop with an incredible saga; a seasoned Hollywood moviemaker uncovers a 25-year-old flame he never knew he'd harboured; a precious fifth-grader puzzles over life, love and baseball as he watches his parents' marriage dissolve; another child is forced into a harrowing cross-country escape; and an elderly couple rediscover the power - and misery - of their relationship during a long-awaited retreat to a hurricane-swept resort island.

Hank Devereaux, a fifty-year-old, one-time novelist now serving as temporary chair of the English department, has more than a mid-life crisis to contend with when he learns that he must cull 20 per cent of his department to meet budget. Half in love with three women, unable to understand his younger daughter or come to terms with his father, he has a dangerous philosophy that life, and academic life, could be simpler, but he fails to see the larger consequences of his own actions or of the small-world politics that ebb and flow around him, as his colleagues jostle for position and marriages fall apart and regroup. The despair of his wife, and the scourge of the campus geese, he is a man at odds with himself and caught somewhere between cause and effect.

Originally published in 1986 in the Vintage Contemporaries paperback seriesand reissued now in hardcover alongside his masterful new novel, Empire FallsRichard Russo's Mohawk remains today as it was described then: A first novel with all the assurance of a mature writer at the peak of form and ambition, Mohawk is set in upstate New York and chronicles over a dozen lives in a leather town, long after the tanneries have started closing down. Ranging over three generationsand clustered mainly in two clans, the Grouses and the Gaffneysthese remarkably various lives share only the common human dilemmas and the awesome physical and emotional presence of Mohawk itself.