Empire Falls by Richard Russo

Empire Falls by Richard Russo

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. In Empire Falls Richard Russo delves deep into the blue-collar heart of America in a work that overflows with hilarity, heartache, and grace.
Empire Falls was also adapted into an HBO mini-series, starring Paul Newman, Ed Harris, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and Helen Hunt.

Russo, Richard: - RICHARD RUSSO is the author of seven previous novels; two collections of stories; and Elsewhere, a memoir. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which like Nobody's Fool was adapted to film, in a multiple-award-winning HBO miniseries.

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ISBN 13	9780679432470
ISBN 10	0679432477
Title	Empire Falls
Author	Richard Russo
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
Year published	2001-05-08
Number of pages	496
Prizes	Winner of Pulitzer Prize (Fiction) 2002, Winner of Ambassador Book Awards (Fiction) 2002, Short-listed for Book Sense Book of the Year Award (Adult Fiction) 2002
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