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Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
Category: Fiction
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 Bobby e ...Show more
Chances Are by Richard Russo
Category: Fiction
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo - in his first stand-alone novel in a decade - comes a new revelation: a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship.
Chances Are ... - A Novel by Richard Russo
Category: Fiction
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a new revelation: a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship One beautiful September day, three sixty-seven-year old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in c ...Show more
Chances Are... (A Novel) by Richard Russo
Category: Fiction
Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Russo's first standalone novel in a decade is a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship.
Elsewhere: A Memoir by Richard Russo
Category: Biography
After eight commanding works of fiction, the Pulitzer Prize winner now turns to memoir in a hilarious, moving, and always surprising account of his life, his parents, and the upstate New York town they all struggled variously to escape. Anyone familiar with Richard Russo's acclaimed novels will recogniz ...Show more
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Category: Fiction
With Empire Falls""Richard Russo cements his reputation as one of America's most compelling and compassionate storytellers. 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 ...Show more
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Category: Fiction
History and humanity flow through Empire Falls, Maine, like the strange flotsam washed up at the bend of the vast, slow-moving Knox River. The Whiting family, owners of the mills and the shirt factory, have sold out to a multinational. The Whiting men have invariably married women who make their lives a ...Show more
Everybody's Fool by Richard Russo
Category: Fiction
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, i ...Show more
Everybody's Fool by Richard Russo
Category: Fiction
Richard Russo, at the very top of his game, now returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and the characters who made "Nobody s Fool "(1993)" "a confident, assured novel [that] sweeps the reader up, according to the" San Francisco Chronicle "back then." " Simple as family love, yet nearly as complicat ...Show more
Everybody's Fool by Richard Russo
Category: Fiction
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, i ...Show more
It Occurs to Me That I Am America - New Stories and Art by Richard Russo; Joyce Carol Oates; Neil Gaiman; Lee Child; Mary Higgins Clark; Jonathan Santlofer (Editor); Viet Thanh Nguyen (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction
A provocative, unprecedented anthology featuring original short stories on what it means to be an American from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen: "This chorus of brilliant voices articulating the shape and texture of con ...Show more
It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art by Richard Russo
Category: Non-Fiction
In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump Inauguration and the Women's March, this provocative, unprecedented anthology features original short stories from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors-including Alice Walker, Richard Russo, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Neil G ...Show more