He satisfies every expectation without lapsing into predictability, and the last section of the book explodes with surprises. Russo's command of his story is unerring. Richard Russo can write like Edith Wharton leavened with a touch of David Lodge * Economist * He is also the author of Mohawk, The Risk Pool, Nobody s Fool, Straight Man. He is, in all the best senses of the word, a natural * Sunday Times * Richard Russo won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for his fifth novel, Empire Falls. Books by this Author Richard Russo Author Biography Pic: Elena Siebert Richard Russo is the author of eight previous novels, two collections of stories, a collection of essays, and the memoir Elsewhere. Russo makes an enormous job of story-telling look effortless. In the Empire Grill he has created a place so involving that not only can you see and smell it, but you start to feel a bit left out of the gin rummy.
Like Anne Tyler, Russo is interested in how people rub along in kindness and responsibility in cutting slack without being asked. Richard Russo, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls, a compassionate look at blue-collar America, is one of our most prominent novelists today.His newest book, Everybodys Fool, brings back the wonderfully likeable characters and locale of his earlier novel Nobodys Fool. His natural grace as a storyteller is matched by his compassion for his characters - John Irving I loved Richard Russo's Pulitzer-winning Empire Falls, a moving, brilliantly imagined and intensely satisfying novel about the slow death of a small town: Russo's characters are as loveable and as exasperating as family - Nick Hornby
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