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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0394577787
ISBN-13: 9780394577784
Jun 1993
Publisher: Random House Inc
549 pages
Language: English |
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Synopsis
In North Bath, a down-at-the-heels town in upstate New York which is not unlike the Mohawk of Russo's two previous novels, Sully must come to terms with his estranged son and his own past.
| Size | | Length: | 549 pages | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.8 in | | Weight: | 32.8 oz |
Industry Reviews
"There's too much of a good thing--too many mini-biographies of walk-on characters, too many points of view, too many idle hours at the OTB parlor and the diner. You wish Mr. Russo had been tougher in editing his book. It makes the experience of reading 'Nobody's Fool' a little like spending time in North Bath. Mostly you're curious and pleased, glad for a chance to eavesdrop and see into these lives, these souls. Then, after a while, you begin to fear that you'll never get out of this place alive. But as the end of your stay approaches, you feel a premature nostalgia--you'll miss the town...and you look around fondly, regretfully, as you speed up and drive on through."
New York Times Book Review - Francine Prose (06/20/1993)
"Simple as family love, yet nearly as complicated, Richard Russo's confident, assured novel sweeps the reader up in the daily life of its characters."
Holt
"Russo is a master craftsman... The blue-collar heartache at the center of [his] fiction has the sheen of Dickens but the epic levity of John Irving."
Holt
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