He satisfies every expectation without lapsing into predictability, and the last section of the book explodes with surprises. In Empire Falls, published in 2001, award-winning author Richard Russo focuses his sharp observations on family, faith, and hope for the future in small-town America, where the factories have left, the populations are dwindling, and the prospects are shrinking. Russo's command of his story is unerring. Richard Russo can write like Edith Wharton leavened with a touch of David Lodge * Economist * He is, in all the best senses of the word, a natural * Sunday Times * Russo’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Empire Falls. Russo makes an enormous job of story-telling look effortless. It is yet another haven for this author’s favorite shirkers, burghers, complainers and human tumbleweeds: the kind of population that turned Mr. In the Empire Grill he has created a place so involving that not only can you see and smell it, but you start to feel a bit left out of the gin rummy.

Like Anne Tyler, Russo is interested in how people rub along in kindness and responsibility in cutting slack without being asked.

His natural grace as a storyteller is matched by his compassion for his characters - John Irving The Fall of Empires: A Brief History of Imperial Collapse Hardcover by Chad Denton (Author) 4.4 16 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 21.49 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. He has collaborated with Robert Benton on the. I loved Richard Russo's Pulitzer-winning Empire Falls, a moving, brilliantly imagined and intensely satisfying novel about the slow death of a small town: Russo's characters are as loveable and as exasperating as family - Nick Hornby Award-winning novelist Richard Russo is the author of Mohawk, The Risk Pool, Nobodys Fool and Straight Man.

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