Prizewinning author Richard Russo is regarded by many critics as the best writer about small-town America since Sherwood Anderson and Sinclair Lewis. While Russo won the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls (2001), many people still consider this to be their favorite of his works. In this intricately woven novel, Russo allows readers to enjoy its humor while appreciating the stark realities of the lives that people it. He deals with his ex-wife, his landlady, his soon to be ex-girlfriend, and his son while suffering his knee pain. He works, but gets paid under the table because his disability case has not yet come up in court. Sully, a man who has never personally met with good luck, is in pain and jobless. In this slyly funny and moving novel, Russo follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbeat, upstate New York town-and in the lives of the unluckiest of its citizens.
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