Empire Falls

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Call Number: Adult Book / Fiction / General / Russo, Richard
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch

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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 ...

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Enjoyed this book! submitted by teri on July 4, 2018, 12:39pm Life in a small town with laughs, hard times, and just a little bit of mystery. Very realistic. Russo's character development, and his writing, is excellent!

Perfect submitted by courtneyhooper on August 10, 2022, 8:46pm This book is a master class in writing: painting a vivid, heartfelt, palpable sense of the fading American century and its (one-time?) believers. When you consider that The Corrections didn’t win the Pulitzer the year it was published, you’ll wonder how. Then you remember this book beat it out, and the literary world makes sense.