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 love... Zobraziť viac
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. She harbours a grudge against her employee Miles Groby, who runs... Zobraziť viac
A new edition of the classic novel from 1993, republished to tie in with the publication of its sequel "Everybody's Fool". Zobraziť viac
A New York Times 2016 Notable Book An immediate national best seller and instant classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls. Richard Russo returns to North Bath a town where dishonesty... Zobraziť viac
Richard Russo returns to North Bath—“a town where dishonesty abounds, everyone misapprehends everyone else and half the citizens are half-crazy” (The New York Times)—and the characters who made Nobody’s Fool a beloved choice of book clubs everywhere.... Zobraziť viac
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.... Zobraziť viac
A marvelous new essay collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Somebody's Fool and The Destiny ThiefLife and Art—these are the twin subjects considered in Richard Russo’s thirteen masterful new essays—how they inform each other and how the... Zobraziť viac