New Releases by Richard Russo

A marvelous new essay collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Somebody''s Fool and The Destiny Thief Life and Art—these are the twin subjects considered in Richard Russo’s thirteen masterful new essays—how they inform each other and how the stories we tell ourselves about both shape our understanding of the world around us. In “The Lives of Others,” he reflects on the implacable fact that writers use people, insisting that what matters, in the end, is how and for what purpose. How do you bridge the gap between what you know and what you don’t (and sometimes can’t) know? Why tell a story in the first place? What we don’t understand, Russo opines, is in fact the very thing that beckons to us. In “Stiff Neck,” he writes of the exasperating fault lines exposed within his own family as his wife’s sister and her husband—proudly unvaccinated—develop COVID. In “Triage,” he details with heartbreaking vividness the terror of seeing his seven-year-old grandson in critical condition. And in “Ghosts,” he revisits Gloversville, the town that gave rise to the now-legendary fictional town of North Bath, and confronts the specter of its richly populated past and its ghostly present. Life and Art comprises sharp, tender, extraordinarily intimate reflections on work, culture, love, and family from one of the great writers of our time.

È il giorno del Ringraziamento a North Bath, sonnacchiosa cittadina termale dello Stato di New York, ma al sessantenne Donald “Sully” Sullivan sembra di non avere molto per cui essere grato. È impantanato in una serie di sfortune: il ginocchio destro artritico, il pick-up che è ormai un rottame, un’ex moglie estremamente vendicativa e votata all’autocommiserazione e un’amante, ormai di vecchia data, che gli dedica ben poche attenzioni. Poi ci sono gli amici che rendono i nemici superflui, e il fantasma sogghignante di suo padre, noto a tutti come Big Jim, che non gli dà pace. Infine, c’è l’appartamento in affitto in cui abita, da cui stanno facendo di tutto per sfrattarlo. Insomma, gli accidenti sembrano inseguirlo in ogni dove e Sully, con la sua distintiva indolenza, non nutre speranze di invertire il corso delle cose. A spezzare questo triste trantran è il figlio Peter, un cupo professore universitario, che ricompare all’improvviso a North Bath con cattive notizie: è da poco rimasto senza lavoro e il suo matrimonio si sta disintegrando. Sully sa di essere stato un padre completamente assente: che il ritorno di Peter sia l’occasione per ricucire uno dei tanti sfilacciamenti della sua vita? Con la sua «abilità dickensiana» (Publishers Weekly) di dare corpo e vita ai personaggi, il Premio Pulitzer Richard Russo si dimostra ancora una volta acutissimo osservatore del - la natura umana. Attraverso Sully, indimenticabile modello di imperfezione, racconta i difetti universali con rara sensibilità e un sorriso indulgente. Incarnazione del perdente per eccellenza, Sully, come molti notavano ancora, non era affatto stupido – frase che lui apprezzava senza riuscire a coglierne il senso tristemente letterale. «Russo offre al lettore una fetta generosa della provincia americana nei suoi molteplici sapori. La vita, secondo me è una commedia indimenticabile dal cuore grande, nella migliore tradizione di John Irving e Anne Tyler». Vogue «Intenso. Un’epifania dell’animo umano». The Washington Post «Un romanzo importante, indisciplinato, fatto di infiniti movimenti ed emozioni umane incontrollabili». The Boston Globe «Con Sully, Russo ha creato un personaggio davvero irresistibile». Financial Times

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and to the characters that captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of readers in his beloved best sellers Nobody’s Fool and Everybody’s Fool. “Sumptuous, spirited . . . [Russo] paints a shining fresco of a working-class community...” —The New York Times • "Another instant classic, filled with Russo''s witty dialogue and warm understanding of human foibles." —People Magazine Ten years after the death of the magnetic Donald “Sully” Sullivan, the town of North Bath is going through a major transition as it is annexed by its much wealthier neighbor, Schuyler Springs. Peter, Sully’s son, is still grappling with his father’s tremendous legacy as well as his relationship to his own son, Thomas, wondering if he has been all that different a father than Sully was to him. Meanwhile, the towns’ newly consolidated police department falls into the hands of Charice Bond, after the resignation of Doug Raymer, the former North Bath police chief and Charice’s ex-lover. When a decomposing body turns up in the abandoned hotel situated between the two towns, Charice and Raymer are drawn together again and forced to address their complicated attraction to one another. Across town, Ruth, Sully’s married ex-lover, and her daughter Janey struggle to understand Janey’s daughter, Tina, and her growing obsession with Peter’s other son, Will. Amidst the turmoil, the town’s residents speculate on the identity of the unidentified body, and wonder who among their number could have disappeared unnoticed. Infused with all the wry humor and shrewd observations that Russo is known for, Somebody''s Fool is another classic from a modern master.

A Vintage Shorts Nonfiction Original One of the most valuable spaces for an artist is the inner life—the sacred place where, outside of the constraints of time and space, meaning is extracted from raw experience and fashioned into art. In this timely new essay, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo discusses the work writers do as they sift through experience and work to cultivate rich interior lives. For authors, this often involves performing triage, a constant assessment of events that helps determine what’s useful for a story and potentially enduring. But what is at stake when we perform triage? Is an artist’s interior life an act of generosity or selfishness? Reflecting on a year of reading and meditations on the nature of interiority brought up by a global pandemic and orders to stay at home, Triage is a candid and arresting look at the process that goes into creative work, by one of our most celebrated and bestselling novelists. An ebook short. Look for Richard Russo''s new book, Somebody''s Fool, coming soon.

Le 1er décembre 1969, Teddy, Lincoln et Mickey, étudiants boursiers dans une fac huppée de la côte Est, voient leur destin se jouer en direct à la télévision alors qu’ils assistent, comme des millions d’Américains, au tirage au sort qui déterminera l’ordre d’appel au service militaire de la guerre du Vietnam. Un an et demi plus tard, diplôme en poche, ils passent un dernier week-end ensemble à Martha’s Vineyard, dans la maison de vacances de Lincoln, en compagnie de Jacy, le quatrième mousquetaire, l’amie dont ils sont tous les trois fous amoureux. Septembre 2015. Lincoln s’apprête à vendre la maison, et les trois amis se retrouvent à nouveau sur l’île. À bord du ferry déjà, les souvenirs affluent dans la mémoire de Lincoln, le "beau gosse" devenu agent immobilier et père de famille, dans celle de Teddy, éditeur universitaire toujours en proie à ses crises d’angoisse, et dans celle de Mickey, la forte tête, rockeur invétéré qui débarque sur sa Harley. Parmi ces souvenirs, celui de Jacy, mystérieusement disparue après leur week-end de 1971. Qu’est-il advenu d’elle ? Qui était-elle réellement ? Lequel d’entre eux avait sa préférence ? Les trois sexagénaires, sirotant des bloody-mary sur la terrasse où, à l’époque, ils buvaient de la bière en écoutant Creedence, rouvrent l’enquête qui n’avait pas abouti alors, faute d’éléments. Et ne peuvent s’empêcher de se demander si tout n’était pas joué d’avance.

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls • Three men in their late sixties—old friends from college, each with a secret—come together on Martha’s Vineyard in this “gripping, wise, and wonderful summer treat.” (The Boston Globe). “A cascade of charm…. Russo is an undeniably endearing writer, and chances are this story will draw you back to the most consequential moments in your own life.” —The Washington Post One beautiful September day, three men in their late sixties convene on Martha''s Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college in the sixties. They couldn''t have been more different then, or even today—Lincoln''s a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press publisher, and Mickey is a musician beyond his rockin'' age. But each man holds his own secrets, in addition to the monumental mystery that none of them has ever stopped puzzling over since a Memorial Day weekend right here on the Vineyard in 1971. Now, forty-five years later, three lives and that of a significant other are put on display while the distant past confounds the present in a relentless squall of surprise and discovery. Shot through with Russo''s trademark comedy and humanity, Chances Are . . . introduces a new level of suspense and menace that will quicken the reader''s heartbeat throughout this absorbing saga. Look for Richard Russo''s new book, Somebody''s Fool, coming soon.

An einem Spätsommertag auf Martha’s Vineyard treffen sie sich wieder: Lincoln, Teddy und Mickey. Die drei Männer planen, das Wochenende in einem Ferienhaus auf der Insel zu verbringen – um der alten Zeiten willen. Seit dem Studium zu Vietnamkriegszeiten sind sie miteinander befreundet. Sie sind sehr unterschiedliche Wege gegangen, doch alle waren sie einst in dasselbe Mädchen verliebt: Jacy Calloway. Kurz nach ihrem Abschluss verschwand Jacy spurlos. Aber keiner von ihnen hat die Freundin vergessen – oder die Frage, wen von ihnen Jacy eigentlich liebte. Schließlich beginnt Lincoln, sich erneut mit den Umständen ihres rätselhaften Verschwindens zu beschäftigen. Was ist damals wirklich passiert? Richard Russo erzählt von drei Menschen, die sich fremd geworden sind, und vom Umgang mit der Unsicherheit, ob die eigenen Lebensentscheidungen die richtigen waren. Wie nebenbei ergibt sich daraus das Porträt eines Landes, das sich selbst nicht mehr ganz versteht. Mit ›Jenseits der Erwartungen‹ zeigt Russo seine ganze Könnerschaft – als großer Erzähler und als Menschenkenner.

North Bath, ancienne cité industrielle du New Jersey mal remise de la crise, continue de dépérir. Cette ville, Douglas Raymer ne l''a jamais quittée. Dégarni, enclin à l''embonpoint, il est veuf d''une femme qui s''apprêtait à le quitter. Pour qui? Voilà une question qui torture ce policier à l''uniforme mal taillé. Avec Sully, vieux loup de mer septuagénaire qui noie son diagnostic fatal dans l''alcool et la cigarette, ils sont les deux piliers branlants de cette ville bâtie de travers. Mais en quarante-huit heures, plus rien ne sera comme avant : un mur de l''usine s''effondre, les serpents envahissent les rues, les morts s''accumulent et entre catastrophes et révélations, tous les habitants de North Bath sont pris dans une sacrée tempête. Richard Russo retrouve ici les personnages d''Un homme presque parfait, et nous livre une symphonie humaine féroce et déjantée.

This dazzling collection of four stories features characters bound together by their parallel moments of reckoning with their pasts—and proves the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls is also a master of the short story. “Beautiful…. Will abruptly break your heart.” —The New York Times The characters in these four expansive stories are a departure from the blue-collar denizens that populate so many of Richard Russo’s novels. In “Horseman,” a young professor confronts an undergraduate plagiarist—as well as her own regrets. In “Intervention,” a realtor facing a serious medical prognosis finds himself in his late father’s shadow. “Voice” gives us a semiretired academic who is conned by his estranged brother into joining a group tour of the Venice Biennale. And “Milton and Marcus” takes us into a lapsed novelist’s attempt to rekindle his screenwriting career—a career that depends wholly, at a crucial moment, on two Hollywood icons (one living, one dead). Look for Richard Russo''s new book, Somebody''s Fool, coming soon.

Douglas Raymer est chef de la police de North Bath, ancienne cité industrielle du New Jersey mal remise de la crise, voisine de la si pimpante Schuyler. Quand Dougie était collégien, sa professeur d''anglais écrivait dans les marges de ses rédactions : "Qui es-tu, Douglas ?". Trente ans plus tard, Raymer n''a pas bougé de Bath et il ne sait toujours pas répondre à la question. Qui est-il ? Dégarni, certes, enclin à l''embonpoint, veuf d''une femme qui s''apprêtait à le quitter. Pour qui ? Voilà une autre question qui torture Raymer. Car depuis la mort accidentelle de Becka, ce policier élu à la tête de son district presque malgré lui vit dans un brouillard, tout juste égayé par la présence de son assistante, la jeune Charice, policière noire fière de son identité. De l''autre côté de la ville, un septuagénaire passe sa retraite sur un tabouret de bar. Sully connaît tout Bath et tout Bath connaît Sully : buveur, fumeur, aussi sarcastique et rusé qu''un vieux loup de mer. Mais comment garder son flegme lorsque résonne encore le diagnostic des cardiologues : "Deux années, grand maximum" ? En regardant, peut-être, les gens passer. Or pour cela, Sully a l''embarras du choix. Il y a Rub, son acolyte bègue ; Carl, le magnat de la ville, qui passe ses nuits devant des films X dans l''espoir de retrouver sa forme d''avant-prostatite. Jerome, le frère jumeau de Charice, maniaque, amoureux de la syntaxe et de sa Mustang rouge. Alice, la femme du maire, qui passe des coups de fil imaginaires depuis un téléphone cassé. Zack, le mari de Ruth, qui collectionne les vieux objets déglingués. Leur fille Janey, menacée par son ancien mari cogneur, à peine sorti de derrière les barreaux. Et puis Rub le chien, qui mordille son pénis en permanence... En quarante-huit heures d''un été torride qui voient - entre autres péripéties - Douglas Raymer s''évanouir au fond d''une tombe, un bâtiment du centre-ville s''écrouler mystérieusement et un cobra s''échapper d''un élevage clandestin, tout ce petit monde à la dérive va se retrouver bouleversé. De courses-poursuites en confessions, de bagarres en révélations, Raymer, Charice, Sully et les autres vont apprendre à affronter les grandes misères de leurs petites existences. Avec la virtuosité qu''on lui connaît, l''auteur du Déclin de l''Empire Whiting revient au roman pur dans cette symphonie humaine féroce et déjantée qui tient autant de Philip Roth que de David Lodge. Fidèle à la ville de North Bath, Russo pose sur ses habitants un regard caustique mais jamais perfide, qui déshabille la sexualité des uns, les frustrations des autres, et place toujours une lumière au bout du tunnel.

Von Pulitzer-Preisträger Richard Russo Donald Sullivan, von allen nur Sully genannt, führt ein bequemes Leben in der verschlafenen Kleinstadt North Bath. Obwohl er geschieden ist, sein kaputtes Knie ihm immer wieder Ärger macht und er seit Langem eine Affäre mit einer verheirateten Frau hat, ist er mit seinem Leben zufrieden. Schon immer hat er sich gründlich vor jeder Verantwortung gedrückt ob als Ehemann, als Vater oder als Untermieter seiner ehemaligen Highschool-Lehrerin. Jetzt holt ihn der Ernst des Lebens ein: Denn nicht nur sein Enkel, der aus einer zerstrittenen Familie flieht, braucht auf einmal seine Hilfe. Mit leiser Ironie und viel Verständnis für die Verrücktheiten seiner kauzigen Figuren erzählt Richard Russo vom Amerika der kleinen Leute. Ein grundzufriedener Mann ist die Neuausgabe eines Klassikers: Mit diesem Buch, das unter dem Originaltitel Nobodys Fool mit Paul Newman verfilmt worden ist, etablierte sich Richard Russo in der ersten Riege amerikanischer Romanciers. Jetzt liegt das Werk erstmals in vollständiger deutscher Übersetzung vor. Ein faszinierender Roman voll schräger Typen. JOHN IRVING

Empire Falls, eine Kleinstadt in Maine: Seit über zwanzig Jahren arbeitet Miles Roby im örtlichen Diner. Hier versammelt sich die ganze Stadt, vom Fitnessstudiobesitzer bis zum Schuldirektor. Miles selbst hat das College abgebrochen, ist geschieden und lebt in einer winzigen Wohnung über dem Restaurant. Und während er sein Bestes gibt, seiner Tochter dabei zu helfen, die Highschool zu überstehen, seinen trinkfreudigen Vater zu bändigen und dem Job im Diner gerecht zu werden, bleibt nicht viel Raum für das, was er sich vom Leben erhofft hat. Seine Verpflichtungen fesseln ihn an die Stadt, und erst als die äußeren Umstände ihn dazu zwingen, gelingt es ihm, Empire Falls zu verlassen. Er flieht mit seiner Tochter an den gemeinsamen Sehnsuchtsort Martha’s Vineyard. Seit Jahren spielt er mit dem Gedanken, sich hier niederzulassen. In ›Diese gottverdammten Träume‹ erzählt Richard Russo mit viel Wärme und Humor die Geschichte eines Mannes, der nicht der geworden ist, der er sein wollte, und zeigt das Leben in der Kleinstadt mit all seinen Absonderlichkeiten: ein Roman mit viel Gefühl für die Tragik, die im Alltäglichen liegt. »Nicht ein falscher Ton ... Russo besitzt eine unglaubliche Fähigkeit, das Besondere an einer Figur und einer Szene herauszuarbeiten.« NEWSDAY »Russo ist einer unserer besten Romanciers. « THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW »Russo ist ein meisterhafter Autor. Seine tiefe Weisheit zeigt sich in der Fehlbarkeit, dem Anstand, dem Humor und der Anmut seiner Figuren, die in ihrer Authentizität unwiderstehlich sind.« THE BOSTON GLOBE

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, the Rust Belt town first brought to unforgettable life in Nobody’s Fool. • "Irresistible.... Very funny.... A joy." —The New York Times Now, ten years later, Doug Raymer has become the chief of police and is tormented by the improbable death of his wife—not to mention his suspicion that he was a failure of a husband. Meanwhile, the irrepressible Sully has come into a small fortune, but is suddenly faced with a VA cardiologist’s estimate that he only has a year or two left to live. As Sully frantically works to keep the bad news from the important people in his life, we are reunited with his son and grandson . . . with Ruth, the married woman with whom he carried on for years . . . and with the hapless Rub Squeers, who worries that he and Sully aren’t still best friends. Filled with humor, 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. Look for Nobody''s Fool, available now, and Somebody’s Fool, coming soon.

''Åndernes rige'' er altså kort sagt en rigtig Russo-roman, befolket af levende og troværdige personer, der er skildret med stor indfølelse og varme. Og først og sidst er ''Åndernes rige'' forrygende morsom. Richard Russo fik Pulitzerprisen for Empire Falls, som udkom på dansk i 2010.

Presents a personal account of the author''s youth, his parents, and the 1950s upstate New York town they struggled to escape, recounting the encroaching poverty and illness that challenged everyday life and the dreams his mother instilled that inspired his career.

"Jean Russo was a single mother in the 1950s, badly paid and living with her parents in Gloversville, New York, a dead-end town whose heyday as the hub of the leather-goods industry was just a distant memory. ''You are getting out of Gloversville'' was her mantra throughout Richard''s high school years. And when he finally made his intrepid escape from the family home on Helwig Street - fleeing to a far-flung college in a banger nicknamed The Gray Death - Jean saw her chance of a better life elsewhere, and jumped in for the first of many ill-conceived adventures. But life on the run from home took its toll on them both, and in this captivating memoir Russo describes how childhood segued into adulthood and parenthood in the company of his restless mother, for whom the grass was always greener in the place where she was not. At the same time he recounts with touching honesty how his own contentment and literary success were at odds with her lifelong battle against disillusionment and anxiety - and the siren call of Gloversville." --Book jacket.

Il suffit d''un mariage pour que celui de Joy et Jack Griffin, la soixantaine, vole en éclats. Un an plus tard, les noces de leur propre fille au cap Cod scellent leurs retrouvailles. De retour sur les lieux de son enfance, Jack vient y disperser les cendres de ses impitoyables et défunts parents. Le contexte invite à la crise existentielle. Et le bilan des ratés est lourd !

Hilarious and true-to-life, witty, compassionate, and impossible to put down, Straight Man follows Hank Devereaux through one very bad week in this novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls. • Now the AMC Original Series Lucky Hank. William Henry Devereaux, Jr., is the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt. Devereaux''s reluctance is partly rooted in his character—he is a born anarchist—and partly in the fact that his department is more savagely divided than the Balkans. In the course of a single week, Devereaux will have his nose mangled by an angry colleague, imagine his wife is having an affair with his dean, wonder if a curvaceous adjunct is trying to seduce him with peach pits, and threaten to execute a goose on local television. All this while coming to terms with his philandering father, the dereliction of his youthful promise, and the ominous failure of certain vital body functions. In short, Straight Man is classic Russo—side-splitting, poignant, compassionate, and unforgettable. Look for Richard Russo''s new book, Somebody''s Fool, coming soon.

Om zijn huwelijksproblemen op te lossen moet een vijftiger zijn hele leven en de waarden en normen waarnaar hij leeft, onder de loep nemen.

OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls comes "a magnificent, bighearted” novel (The Boston Globe) about small-town America that follows Louis Charles Lynch (“Lucy”) and his wife of forty years as they prepare to embark on a vacation to Italy. Lucy is sixty years old and has spent his entire life in Thomaston, New York. Like his late, beloved father, Lucy is an optimist, though he’s had plenty of reasons not to be—chief among them his mother, still indomitably alive. Yet it was her shrewdness, combined with that Lynch optimism, that had propelled them years ago to the right side of the tracks and created an “empire” of convenience stores about to be passed on to the next generation. Lucy''s oldest friend, once a rival for his wife''s affection, leads a life in Venice far removed from Thomaston. In fact, the exact nature of their friendship is one of the many mysteries Lucy hopes to untangle in the “history” he’s writing of his hometown and family. And with his story interspersed with that of Noonan, the native son who’d fled so long ago, the destinies building up around both of them (and Sarah, too) are relentless, constantly surprising, and utterly revealing.

This irresistible collection of short stories from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls reveals the imperfect bargains of marriage, the discoveries and disillusionments of childhood, and the unwinnable battles men and women insist on fighting with the past. “An author whose laid-back understatements can be as sharp as other writers’ boldest declarations….the architect of stories you can’t put down.” —The New York Times Richard Russo brings the same bittersweet wit, deep knowledge of human nature, and spellbinding narrative gifts that distinguish his best-selling novels. A cynical Hollywood moviemaker confronts his dead wife’s lover and abruptly realizes the depth of his own passion. As his parents’ marriage disintegrates, a precocious fifth-grader distracts himself with meditations on baseball, spaghetti, and his place in the universe. And in the title story, an elderly nun enters a college creative writing class and plays havoc with its tidy notions of fact and fiction. The Whore’s Child is further proof that Russo is one of the finest writers we have, unsparingly truthful yet hugely compassionate and capable of creating characters real that they seem to step off the page. Look for Richard Russo''s new book, Somebody''s Fool, coming soon.

Właściciel Empire Grill w Empire Falls, Maine ma mnóstwo kłopotów z rodziną, ale co tak naprawdę zamierza Pani Whiting z młynu?

La petite ville d''Empire Falls dans l''État du Maine a connu des jours meilleurs. Jusqu''aux années 60, elle était le siège d''une importante industrie textile qui employait la quasi-totalité de ses habitants. Aujourd''hui, le seul vestige de cette prospérité est incarné par la veuve du clan Whiting, ombre pâle mais toujours manipulatrice d''une dynastie autrefois toute-puissante. Miles Roby, le gérant du grill, observe depuis son comptoir sa ville en faillite et ses habitants souvent désœuvrés. Il est le témoin attendri de ces vies avec leurs surprises et leurs drames. La sienne n''est guère plus brillante : sa future ex femme lui confie ses tourments sentimentaux et sa fille traverse une adolescence perturbée. Le Déclin de l''empire Whiting révèle le meilleur et le pire de nous-mêmes, nos cauchemars les plus effrayants, mais aussi nos espoirs les plus modestes. C''est une grande fresque peinte avec la grâce et l''humanité qui sont devenues, au fil de ses romans, la marque de fabrique de Richard Russo, qui a obtenu, pour ce livre, le Prix Pulitzer 2002.

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls, this slyly funny, moving novel about a blue-collar town in upstate New York—and about Sully, one of its unluckiest citizens, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years—is a classic American story. "Remarkable.... A revelation of the human heart." —The Washington Post Divorced from his own wife and carrying on halfheartedly with another man''s, 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 father''s footsteps. With its uproarious humor and a heart that embraces humanity''s follies as well as its triumphs, Nobody''s Fool, from Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Richard Russo, is storytelling at its most generous. Nobody’s Fool was made into a movie starring Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Jessica Tandy, and Melody Griffith. Look for Everybody’s Fool, available now, and Somebody’s Fool, coming soon.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls comes a wonderfully funny novel set in Mohawk, New York, where Ned Hall is doing his best to grow up, even though neither of his estranged parents can properly be called adult. "Superbly original and maliciously funny." —The New York Times Book Review His father, Sam, cultivates bad habits so assiduously that he is stuck at the bottom of his auto insurance risk pool. His mother, Jenny, is slowly going crazy from resentment at a husband who refuses either to stay or to stay away. As Ned veers between allegiances to these grossly inadequate role models, Richard Russo gives us a book that overflows with outsized characters and outlandish predicaments and whose vision of family is at once irreverent and unexpectedly moving. Look for Richard Russo''s new book, Somebody''s Fool, coming soon.