Blogs in September 2020

Everybody’s Fool 25th September 2020

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...

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Nobody’s Fool 21st September 2020

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...

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Mohawk 21st September 2020

Originally published in 1986 in the Vintage Contemporaries paperback series—and reissued now in hardcover alongside his masterful new novel, Empire Falls—Richard Russo’s Mohawk remains today as it was described then: A first novel with all the assurance of a...

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Straight Man 4th September 2020

In this uproarious new novel, Richard Russo performs his characteristic high-wire walk between hilarity and heartbreak. Russo’s protagonist is William Henry Devereaux, Jr., the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust...

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Chances Are . . . 9th August 2019

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

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