Straight Man
The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group's experience of reading Richard Russo's Straight Man . We hope they will provide interesting new angles from which to examine this funny, poignan...
Everybody's Fool
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.
Straight Man
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 lo...
Risk Pool
The Risk Pool is a thirty-year journey through the lives of Sam Hall, a small-town gambling hellraiser, and his watchful, introspective son Ned. When Ned's mother Jenny suffers a breakdown and retreats from her husband's carelessness into a dream ...
Mohawk
Mohawk, New York, is one of those small towns that lie almost entirely on the wrong side of the tracks. Its citizens, too, have fallen on hard times. Dallas Younger, a star athlete in high school, now drifts from tavern to poker game, losing money...
Chances Are
One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year-old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college in the 1960s. They couldn't have been more different then, or even today - Lincoln's a commercial real estate broker, Ted...
Empire Falls
Empire Falls, Maine: once a thriving hub of industry, this small town nestles in a bend of the vast and winding Knox River, and has always been the empire of the wealthy Whiting family. Now the last Mrs Whiting presides like a black widow spider o...
Mohawk
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Bridge of Sighs: Oprah's Book Club
OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - NEW YORK TIMES 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. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor Louis Charles Lynch is sixty years old and has spent his entire life in Thomaston, New York, married to the same woman, Sarah, for forty of them, their son now a grown man. 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.
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 there? It could be his bright, sensitive daughter Tick, who needs all his help surviving the local high school. Or maybe it's Janine, Miles' soon-to-be ex-wife, who's taken up with a noxiously vain health-club proprietor. Or perhaps it's the imperious
Nobody's Fool
Richard Russo's 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 year...
Trajectory
RTE Guide's Book of the Year, 2018 Richard Russo's characters in these four expansive stories bear little similarity to the blue-collar citizens we're familiar with from many of his novels. In 'Horseman,' a professor confronts a young plagiarist a...
Nobody's Fool
Nobody's Fool
Somebody's Fool
'A wise and witty drama of small-town life . . . delivering the generous humour, keen ear for dialogue, and deep appreciation for humanity's foibles that have endeared the author to his readers for decades' Publishers WeeklyTen years after the death of the magnetic Donald 'Sully' Sullivan, the town of North Bath is going through a major transition as it is taken over by its much wealthier neighbour, 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 following the resignation of Doug Raymer, the former North Bath police chief and Charice's ex-boyfriend. 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, struggles to understand her granddaughter, 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. Brimming with warmth, wisdom and Russo's signature wry humour, Somebody's Fool is another classic from a modern master of storytelling.
Somebody's Fool
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
Life and Art: Essays
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 twelve 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
Duraki vse
Vtoroj roman sagi pro gorodok Nort-Bart i ego obitatelej. Salli za vremja, minuvshee s sobytij pervoj knigi, vnezapno privalila udacha, no Salli vsegda ponimal, chto udacha i vezenie - veschi mimoletnye, i vot on rassmatrivaet zakljuchenie kardiologa, soglasno kotoromu emu ostalos ot sily dva goda, a skoree, odin. Sam etot fakt ne osobo volnuet Salli, kuda bolshe ego bespokoit, kak on soobschit etu novost ljudjam, kotorye sostavljajut sut ego balamutnoj zhizni. Rut, ego mnogoletnjaja zamuzhnjaja ljubovnitsa; vernyj prostak Rub, kotoryj po-prezhnemu zadaetsja voprosom, mozhet li on nazyvatsja luchshim drugom Salli; syn i vnuk, dlja kotorykh Salli bolshuju chast zhizni byl chelovekom otsutstvujuschim, - kak im skazat?.. A ved esche est Karl Robak, prodolzhajuschij lelejat grandioznye proekty, i nachalnik politsii Duglas Rejmer, zhena kotorogo, ubegaja s tainstvennym ljubovnikom, v bukvalnom smysle dobralas lish do poslednej stupenki lestnitsy, da i vse prochie obitateli Nort-Barta, u
Durakov net
Pervaja kniga trilogii pro gorodok Nort-Bat i ego chudakovatykh i obajatelnykh obitatelej Odin iz luchshikh romanov Richarda Russo. Ostroumnaja i trogatelnaja istorija o tom, kak na sonnyj zakholustnyj gorodok Nort-Bat sniskhodit to li blagodat, to li prokljatie - tut kazhdyj iz ego zhitelej vybiraet sam. Donaldu Sallivanu, kotorogo vse zovut Salli, shestdesjat, i vsju svoju zhizn s triumfalnym uporstvom on sovershal odni lish oshibki, pust on i nikak ne durak. On odinok, khot i okruzhen tolpoj ljudej, bolnoe koleno poroj meshaet normalno peredvigatsja, druzja u nego takie, chto poroj i vragi ne nuzhny, i problemy sypjatsja na Salli odna za drugoj, a mozhet, on ikh sam nakhodit. Vsju zhizn polagalsja tolko na sebja, sam vybiral svoj put, nu a esli put etot privodil v tupik - znachit, sam durak. Tjazheloe detstvo s ottsom-despotom, nezadachlivyj brak, neudachi odna za drugoj - takov Salli, vot tolko ni u kogo jazyk ne povernetsja nazvat ego neudachnikom, potomu chto Salli sam vybiraet,
Rosetta Codex
Six-year-old Cale's first experiences of primitive Conrad's World were violent and tragic. Cale's wealthy father was killed in space on a business venture, leaving a lone shuttle to make landfall in the desert. Cale's guardian Sidonie was attacked...
Memoirs Of A Cancer Researcher
This narrative of a cancer researcher spans a period in which biomedicine research has been so revolutionary. The educational background and socioeconomic circumstances of the author make the story unique, shedding light on many important intellec...
Needle Felted Tapestries
Bring pictures to life with needle felting From simple mug rugs to Renaissance-style tapestry wall hangings, 16 charming projects lead fiber lovers on a journey to discover the art of needle felting. Felt artist Neysa Russo shares her years of exp...
Molecular Basis of Breast Cancer
This richly-illustrated atlas-like book provides a foundation for the biological and molecular understanding of how the mammary gland develops and how breast cancer originates. The main goal is to comprehensively review in ten chapters fundamental...
Undead
George A. Romero's classic 1968 film, "Night of the Living Dead", introduced a new era of gutmunching cinematic mayhem and inspired legions of directors and writers, among them Quentin Tarantino and George Lucas. John A. Russo co-wrote t...
Composing Music
Aimed at those who have some knowledge of music but not formal training in composition, this concise introduction to composing starts right in with a brief composition exercise, then proceeds step by step through a series of increasingly complex a...
Women of the White House
Women of the White House looks at the work, lives and times of the 47 women officially recognized as America's first lady. Through portraits, photographs, accounts and profiles, the book examines their contributions to the presidencies they suppor...
Your Soul Purpose
Discover your soul purpose by harnessing your own energy and accessing the world beyond in this expert guide from the world-famous psychic medium and author of The Happy Medium. Everyone on earth has a purpose for being here, but it can be difficu...
