Richard Russo’s new novel takes place in the decaying American town of North Bath over the course of a very busy weekend, ten years after the events of Nobody’s Fool. Donald ‘Sully’ Sullivan is trying to ignore his cardiologist’s estimate that he has only a year or two left....

Richard Russo’s slyly funny and moving novel follows the unexpected workings of grace in a deadbeat town in upstate New York – and in the life of one of its unluckiest citizens, Sully, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years....

One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year-old men convene on Martha’s Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college in the 1960s. They couldn’t have been more different then, or even today – Lincoln’s a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press publisher and Mickey an ageing musician....

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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....

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is a huge-hearted and wonderful novel by a master storyteller. 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....

\"Funny and tender\" Daily Telegraph Author of the Pulitzer Prize winning Empire Falls. At age fifty, Professor William Henry Devereaux, Jr, has more than a mid-life crisis to deal with. As a child, his parents found him merely exasperating. As an adult, and interim chair of the English Department, he is careening out of control....

Linking international trade and labour standards is an issue that has taken on increased visibility with the accelerating pace of globalization. Although globalization has brought benefits to some, it has not resulted in the predicted benefits for many workers worldwide and in particular for workers in developing countries....

Richard Russo\"s slyly funny and moving novel follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbeat town in upstate New York — and in the life of one of its unluckiest citizens, Sully, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years....

Edited by the award-winning, best-selling author Richard Russo, this year\'s collection boasts a satisfying chorus of twenty stories that are by turns playful, ironic, somber, and meditative (Wall Street Journal). With the masterful Russo picking......

After eight commanding works of fiction, the Pulitzer Prize winner now turns to memoir in a hilarious, moving, and always surprising account of his life, his parents, and the upstate New York town they all struggled variously to escape....

Book Description: Two boys grow up in Thomaston, upstate New York. Louis Charles Lynch, aka Lucy, marries his childhood sweetheart and settles down to run a small empire of convenience stores. He\'s a good man, but he isn\'t always as reliable as he seems, and secretly longs....

Following Bridge of Sighs a national best seller hailed by The Boston Globe as an astounding achievemento and a masterpieceo Richard Russo gives us the story of a marriage, and of all the other ties that bind, from parents and in-laws to children and the promises of youth....

My book is an autobiography about surviving cancer, three times, over the course of sixteen years. As the author of the book, I describe the trials and tribulations of having cancer, and how I fought the battle with the help of my family and friends. The book is not all gloom and doom; it is humorous, as well....