Empire Falls
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The bestselling author of Nobody's Fool and Straight Man delves deep into the blue-collar heart of America in a work that overflows with hilarity, heartache, and grace.
“Rich, humorous ... Mr. Russo’s most seductive book thus far.” —The New York Times
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.
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…
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April 12, 2002RICHARD RUSSO is the author of nine novels, most recently Somebody's Fool, Chances Are . . . , Everybody’s Fool, and That Old Cape Magic; two collections of stories; and the memoir Elsewhere. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which, like Nobody’s Fool, won multiple awards for its screen adaptation, and in 2023 his novel Straight Man was adapted into the television series Lucky Hank. In 2017 he received France’s Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine. He lives in Portland, ME.
Life and Art
Richard Russo
Somebody's Fool
Richard Russo
Triage
Richard Russo
Chances Are . . .
Richard Russo
Sh*tshow
Richard Russo
The Destiny Thief
Richard Russo
Trajectory
Richard Russo
Everybody's Fool
Richard Russo
Collected Nonfiction of Mark Twain, Volume 2
Mark Twain; Introduction by Richard Russo
The Mysteries of Linwood Hart
Richard Russo
Elsewhere
Richard Russo
She's Not There
Jennifer Finney Boylan
That Old Cape Magic
Richard Russo