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The irresistible Sully, who in the intervening years has come by some unexpected good fortune, is staring down a VA cardiologist’s estimate that he has only a year or two left, and it’s hard work trying to keep this news from the most important people in his life: Ruth, the married woman he carried on with for years . . . the ultra-hapless Rub Squeers, who worries that he and Sully aren’t still best friends . . . Sully’s son and grandson, for whom he was mostly an absentee figure (and now a regretful one). We also enjoy the company of Doug Raymer, the chief of police who’s obsessing primarily over the identity of the man his wife might’ve…

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 imminent danger of following in his father's footsteps. With its sly and uproarious humor and a heart that embraces humanity's follies as well as its triumphs, Nobody's Fool is storytelling at its most generous.

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 Bond, after the resignation of Doug Raymer, the former North Bath police chief and Charice’s ex-lover. When a decomposing body turns up in the abandoned hotel…

Two boys grow up in Thomaston, upstate New York. One of them gets away to Italy, where he becomes a painter. The other stays to marry Sarah, also an artist; to run a small empire of convenience stores; and to tell their story. He's a good man, but Louis Charles Lynch, known as Lucy, isn't always as reliable as he seems, and even he secretly longs for what he can't have. Now, at sixty years old, he and Sarah are about to travel to Venice, where Lucy's oldest friend and rival has traded life and family for a life far removed from Thomaston. The truth about why he left, and aboutthe ties that bind these three friends, is complex, heartbreaking…

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…

Майлз Роби двадцать лет готовит бургеры в «Имперском гриле», эта работа стоила ему высшего образования и изрядной доли самоуважения. Майлз — хороший парень, но в его характере есть один трагический изъян — он не способен на решительные действия. И его доброту порой не отличить от готовности плыть по течению. Вот только течения в городке Эмпайр Фоллз весьма затейливы. Даже река Нокс тут делает петлю, прибивая к берегу все, что собрала выше по течению. Так и Майлз, с юности пытавшийся вырваться из душного родного города, кружит вокруг собственной жизни. Может, тут его держит умная тонкокожая дочка Тик, которой без поддержки отца не выжить в…

Первая книга трилогии про городок Норт-Бат и его чудаковатых и обаятельных обитателей Один из лучших романов Ричарда Руссо. Остроумная и трогательная история о том, как на сонный захолустный городок Норт-Бат снисходит то ли благодать, то ли проклятие — тут каждый из его жителей выбирает сам. Дональду Салливану, которого все зовут Салли, шестьдесят, и всю свою жизнь с триумфальным упорством он совершал одни лишь ошибки, пусть он и никак не дурак. Он одинок, хоть и окружен толпой людей, больное колено порой мешает нормально передвигаться, друзья у него такие, что порой и враги не нужны, и проблемы сыпятся на Салли одна за другой, а может,…