New Releases by Richard Russo

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls, this slyly funny, moving novel about a blue-collar town in upstate New York—and about Sully, one of its unluckiest citizens, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years—is a classic American story. "Remarkable.... A revelation of the human heart." —The Washington Post 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 uproarious humor and a heart that embraces humanity''s follies as well as its triumphs, Nobody''s Fool, from Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Richard Russo, is storytelling at its most generous. Nobody’s Fool was made into a movie starring Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Jessica Tandy, and Melody Griffith. Look for Everybody’s Fool, available now, and Somebody’s Fool, coming soon.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls comes a wonderfully funny novel set in Mohawk, New York, where Ned Hall is doing his best to grow up, even though neither of his estranged parents can properly be called adult. "Superbly original and maliciously funny." —The New York Times Book Review His father, Sam, cultivates bad habits so assiduously that he is stuck at the bottom of his auto insurance risk pool. His mother, Jenny, is slowly going crazy from resentment at a husband who refuses either to stay or to stay away. As Ned veers between allegiances to these grossly inadequate role models, Richard Russo gives us a book that overflows with outsized characters and outlandish predicaments and whose vision of family is at once irreverent and unexpectedly moving. Look for Richard Russo''s new book, Somebody''s Fool, coming soon.

Großes amerikanisches Erzählkino Jack Griffin wollte niemals werden wie seine Eltern. Seit dreißig Jahren ist er verheiratet, hat eine wohlgeratene Tochter und wurde nach seiner Karriere als Hollywood-Drehbuchautor Professor an einem kleinen College im Nordosten. Doch nun ist er Mitte fünfzig und erkennt, dass ihn die Lebensmuster seiner wunderbar scheußlichen Eltern längst eingeholt haben. Der Pulitzer-Preisträger Richard Russo, der in den USA schon seit Langem zu den bedeutenden Schriftstellern zählt, zeigt in seinem facettenreichen Roman, dass wir den Rollenbildern, denen wir zu entfliehen suchen, niemals ganz entkommen: Wir wiederholen sie – oder verkehren sie in ihr Gegenteil. ›Diese alte Sehnsucht‹ führt ebenso unterhaltsam wie kunstvoll vor, dass Familie dort ist, wo uns das Schlimmste, aber auch das Beste geschieht. »Eine romantische Komödie aus der Lebensmitte, voller Humor und Zuversicht.« The Guardian

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls delivers his most intimate novel yet: "An astute portrait of a 30-year marriage, in all its promise and pain…. His honest, heartfelt storytelling—like a cooling breeze off a certain New England shoreline—has never felt fresher" (People). For Griffin, all paths, all memories, converge at Cape Cod. The Cape is where he took his childhood summer vacations, where he and his wife, Joy, honeymooned, where they decided he’d leave his LA screenwriting job to become a college professor, and where they celebrated the marriage of their daughter Laura’s best friend. But when their beloved Laura’s wedding takes place a year later, Griffin is caught between chauffeuring his mother’s and father’s ashes in two urns and contending with Joy and her large, unruly family. Both he and she have also brought dates along. How in the world could this have happened? By turns hilarious, rueful, and uplifting, That Old Cape Magic is a profoundly involving novel about marriage, family, and all the other ties that bind. Look for Richard Russo''s new book, Somebody''s Fool, coming soon.

«Uno de los mejores novelistas de estos tiempos.» The New York Times «Gigantescamente conmovedora.» The Washigton Post Tras vivir sesenta años en el mismo lugar, atendiendo el mismo negocio familiar, Louis decide viajar por primera vez para visitar a Bobby en Venecia, donde éste se ha convertido en un pintor famoso. Quiere preguntarle por qué huyó de Thomaston siendo un adolescente y nunca más quiso volver. Pero mientras prepara la partida, los recuerdos irrumpen para demostrarle que nada es tan simple como pensaba y que todos en el pueblo, incluido él mismo, esconden secretos de los que nunca se habló. Richard Russo vuelve a demostrar su talento inigualable para narrar cómo viven, sienten y piensan personas ordinarias en situaciones extraordinarias. «Un libro sabio, iluminador, entrañable, rico, ambiguo, absorbente y absolutamente irresistible... Los lectores se sumergirán de tal modo en el mundo de Russo que sufrirán una especie de shock al tener que abandonarlo.» Kirkus Reviews « Russo ha escrito una obra maestra.» Boston Sunday Globe

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls comes "a magnificent, bighearted” novel (The Boston Globe) about small-town America that follows Louis Charles Lynch (“Lucy”) and his wife of forty years as they prepare to embark on a vacation to Italy. Lucy is sixty years old and has spent his entire life in Thomaston, New York. Like his late, beloved father, Lucy is an optimist, though he’s had plenty of reasons not to be—chief among them his mother, still indomitably alive. Yet it was her shrewdness, combined with that Lynch optimism, that had propelled them years ago to the right side of the tracks and created an “empire” of convenience stores about to be passed on to the next generation. Lucy''s oldest friend, once a rival for his wife''s affection, leads a life in Venice far removed from Thomaston. In fact, the exact nature of their friendship is one of the many mysteries Lucy hopes to untangle in the “history” he’s writing of his hometown and family. And with his story interspersed with that of Noonan, the native son who’d fled so long ago, the destinies building up around both of them (and Sarah, too) are relentless, constantly surprising, and utterly revealing. Look for Richard Russo''s new book, Somebody''s Fool, coming soon.

This irresistible collection of short stories from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls reveals the imperfect bargains of marriage, the discoveries and disillusionments of childhood, and the unwinnable battles men and women insist on fighting with the past. “An author whose laid-back understatements can be as sharp as other writers’ boldest declarations….the architect of stories you can’t put down.” —The New York Times Richard Russo brings the same bittersweet wit, deep knowledge of human nature, and spellbinding narrative gifts that distinguish his best-selling novels. A cynical Hollywood moviemaker confronts his dead wife’s lover and abruptly realizes the depth of his own passion. As his parents’ marriage disintegrates, a precocious fifth-grader distracts himself with meditations on baseball, spaghetti, and his place in the universe. And in the title story, an elderly nun enters a college creative writing class and plays havoc with its tidy notions of fact and fiction. The Whore’s Child is further proof that Russo is one of the finest writers we have, unsparingly truthful yet hugely compassionate and capable of creating characters real that they seem to step off the page. Look for Richard Russo''s new book, Somebody''s Fool, coming soon.

Właściciel Empire Grill w Empire Falls, Maine ma mnóstwo kłopotów z rodziną, ale co tak naprawdę zamierza Pani Whiting z młynu?

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The bestselling author of Nobody''s Fool and Straight Man delves deep into the blue-collar heart of America in a work that overflows with hilarity, heartache, and grace. “Rich, humorous ... Mr. Russo’s most seductive book thus far.” —The New York Times 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 health-club proprietor. Or perhaps it’s the imperious Francine Whiting, who owns everything in town–and seems to believe that “everything” includes Miles himself. Look for Richard Russo''s new book, Somebody''s Fool, coming soon.

In his first collection, a master storyteller focuses on a fresh and fascinating range of human behavior. With a fluency of tone that will surprise even his devoted readers, Russo captures both bewildering horror and heartrending tenderness with an absorbing, compassionate authority.

Maine is a place that inspires lifelong devotion in visitors and residents alike. It is a place that encompasses many worlds within its boundaries--mountains and lakes, rivers and forests, a dramatic coastline--and supports a unique way of life influenced by both geography and climate. Maine: The Seasons captures the rugged beauty and spirit of Maine by taking us into its very heart, through images and words. Featuring 127 color photographs by acclaimed landscape photographer Terrell S. Lester, and original essays by four celebrated writers--Elizabeth Strout on spring, Ann Beattie on summer, Richard Russo on autumn, and Richard Ford on winter--Maine: The Seasons gives us a richly evocative, visually glorious appreciation of the look, the feeling, the essence, of Maine.

" Parce qu''il est allergique, William H. Devereaux Jr abuse des antihistaminiques. Il souffre aussi de la prostate. Mais son problème, si l''on peut dire, est infiniment plus vaste. En réalité, rien ne va plus dans la vie de ce professeur de lettres d''une cinquantaine d''années. Auteur, dans sa jeunesse d''un roman qui a connu un semblant de succès, William Devereaux Jr ne peut se résoudre à accepter son destin d''enseignant dans la médiocre université de Railton, Pennsylvanie. Ce n''est pas tout : persuadé que sa femme le trompe avec le doyen de l''université, il découvre que l''une de ses filles est sur le point de divorcer et, pire encore, que sa secrétaire va publier un roman chez son propre éditeur. Et puis, signe indéniable que le temps passe, il vient pour la première fois de se faire battre au tennis par sa fille aînée... Sur ce qu''il faut bien nommer la crise de la cinquantaine, Richard Russo a écrit un roman à la fois drôle et désabusé, qui n''est pas sans rappeler ceux de John Updike. " Jean-René Van der Plaetsen, Le Figaro

Hilarious and true-to-life, witty, compassionate, and impossible to put down, Straight Man follows Hank Devereaux through one very bad week in this novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls. • Now the AMC Original Series Lucky Hank. William Henry Devereaux, Jr., is the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt. Devereaux''s reluctance is partly rooted in his character—he is a born anarchist—and partly in the fact that his department is more savagely divided than the Balkans. In the course of a single week, Devereaux will have his nose mangled by an angry colleague, imagine his wife is having an affair with his dean, wonder if a curvaceous adjunct is trying to seduce him with peach pits, and threaten to execute a goose on local television. All this while coming to terms with his philandering father, the dereliction of his youthful promise, and the ominous failure of certain vital body functions. In short, Straight Man is classic Russo—side-splitting, poignant, compassionate, and unforgettable. Look for Richard Russo''s new book, Somebody''s Fool, coming soon.