New Releases by Richard Russo

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

«Uno de los mejores novelistas de estos tiempos.» The New York Times «Gigantescamente conmovedora.» The Washigton Post Tras vivir sesenta años en el mismo lugar, atendiendo el mismo negocio familiar, Louis decide viajar por primera vez para visitar a Bobby en Venecia, donde éste se ha convertido en un pintor famoso. Quiere preguntarle por qué huyó de Thomaston siendo un adolescente y nunca más quiso volver. Pero mientras prepara la partida, los recuerdos irrumpen para demostrarle que nada es tan simple como pensaba y que todos en el pueblo, incluido él mismo, esconden secretos de los que nunca se habló. Richard Russo vuelve a demostrar su talento inigualable para narrar cómo viven, sienten y piensan personas ordinarias en situaciones extraordinarias. «Un libro sabio, iluminador, entrañable, rico, ambiguo, absorbente y absolutamente irresistible... Los lectores se sumergirán de tal modo en el mundo de Russo que sufrirán una especie de shock al tener que abandonarlo.» Kirkus Reviews « Russo ha escrito una obra maestra.» Boston Sunday Globe

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.

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

A collection of short fiction explores the lives of a variety of characters, including a jaded Hollywood filmmaker, a precocious fifth-grader watching his parents'' marriage disintegrate, and a child forced into a harrowing cross-country escape.

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.

Een jongen moet kiezen tussen een leven bij zijn vader of zijn moeder.