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A New York Times 2016 Notable BookAn 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 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. Everybody's Fool is classic Russo, filled with humor...

A wonderfully funny, perceptive novel The Risk Pool is 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. 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 be...

This slyly funny, moving novel about a blue-collar town in upstate New York-and in the life of Sully, of one of its unluckiest citizens, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years-is a classic American story. 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 i...

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, and, inevitably, another set of false teeth. His ex-wife, Anne, is stuck in a losing battle with her mother over the care of her sick father. And their son, Randall, is deliberately neglecting his s...

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 Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo. 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...

Jede Kleinstadt hat ihre Geheimnisse. Das englische "Little Wallop" ist dabei keine Ausnahme. In einem gemütlichen, kleinen Haus mitten in der schönsten ländlichen Idylle lebt die Familie Goodfellow. Vor den Nachbarn und der Gemeinde versucht die Familie den schönen Schein aufrecht zu erhalten, doch langsam bröckelt der Putz von der perfekten Fassade. Dabei hat Familienoberhaupt Walter Goodfellow (ROWAN ATKINSON) nur die besten Absichten. Weil...

Weihnachten soll man sich was gönnen, denken sich Mafia-Anwalt Charlie Arglist und Porno-König Vic Cavanaugh: Gemeinsam erleichtern sie Charlies Klienten Bill Gerard um satte zwei Millionen Dollar. Doch ein Eissturm hindert das neureiche Gaunerpärchen an der Flucht. Jetzt heißt es, auf keinen Fall Verdacht erregen. Während Vic eiskalt bleibt, packt Charlie die Panik. Bei seiner üblichen Runde durch Bills Striplokale versucht er, auf keinen Fal...

A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction An NPR Best Book of 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Russo turns to memoir in this hilarious and bittersweet account of his lifelong bond with his high-strung, spirited mother-and the small town she spent her life trying to escape. Anyone familiar with Russo's novels will recognize Gloversville-once famous for producing nine out of ten dress gloves in the United States. By the time Rick...

Edited by award-winning, bestselling author Russo, this year's collection boasts a satisfying "chorus of 20 stories that are by turns playful, ironic, somber, and meditative" ("Wall Street Journal").

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Following the best-selling Everybody's Fool, a new collection of short fiction that demonstrates that Richard Russo--winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls--is also a master of this genre. 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 as well as her own weaknesses as the Thanksgivi...

A new edition of the classic novel from 1993, republished to tie in with the publication of its sequel "Everybody's Fool".

A sequel to 1993's "Nobody's Fool", which also entirely stands alone. Takes place over the course of a very busy weekend, ten years after the events of the previous book.

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Richard Russo and five other Maine authors here prove that the close of life need not be filled with darkness, when hospice help is at hand. These writers recount intensely personal and profoundly moving end-of-life accounts that cover a wide spectrum of human experience. All six authors are donating their royalties to a Maine hospice, Down East will also donate 10 percent of proceeds to the same cause.

This moving novel follows Louis Charles Lynch ("Lucy") as he and his wife of forty years are about 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 ...

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A funny, bittersweet novel about two weddings and a divorce, parents, family myth and memory

For Griffin, all paths, all memories, converge at Cape Cod. The Cape is where he took his childhood summer vacations, where he and his wife, Joy, honeymooned, where they decided he'd leave his LA screenwriting job to become a college professor, and where they celebrated the marriage of their daughter Laura's best friend. But when their beloved Laura's wedding takes place a year later, Griffin is caught between chauffeuring his mother's and fat...

Richard Russo won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for his fifth novel, Empire Falls. He is also the author of Mohawk, The Risk Pool, Nobody¿s Fool, Straight Man, Bridge of Sighs and That Old Cape Magic, as well as a collection of stories, The Whore¿s Child. His original screenplay is the basis for Rowan Atkinson¿s film Keeping Mum. He lives with his wife in Maine and in Boston.

Novel set in small town Maine, with a colourful array of characters, which makes a sinuous exploration of the foibles of human nature, with a great deal of humour and insight.