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Sunday, July 30. 2023

Read this book?

Nobody's Fool, 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.


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Didn't this become a Paul Newman movie? Which was pretty good, if I recollect. If the book is better, it's worth a read.
#1 ruralcounsel on 2023-07-30 08:50 (Reply)
The Paul Newman movie is seared into my memory, thanks to the scene where Melanie Griffith's character flashed him her boobs. Oddly enough, our VCR tape developed a glitch around that point in the movie, eventually.
#2 DemGeezer on 2023-07-30 13:57 (Reply)
Yes, an excellent read. Great characters. I remember feeling very immersed in their lives. A book worth your time.
#3 Poboy on 2023-07-30 14:11 (Reply)
Richard Russo's best work, IMO, with great characters and convincing and funny dialog. I've read it several times. The movies just as good.
#4 Estoy Listo on 2023-07-31 00:06 (Reply)
All of Russo's work is good. No one captures Upstate New York like him. If you like this book, try Straight Man. And if you read Emoire Falls, read Mohawk, his first book. Basically the same story as Empire, but written 10 years earlier, you see how he grew as a writer.
#5 Tonyp (Link) on 2023-07-31 02:39 (Reply)
Hadn't thought about Russo for a while. I ran across this article a while ago. It might give some background.
https://blog.timesunion.com/localarts/big-picture-richard-russo-and-gloversville-for-real/7551/
#6 Don on 2023-07-31 11:47 (Reply)
Read it over and over. I’m an upstate New Yorker, the people just seemed so real to me. The movie was good enough, except for nearly everyone just being too good-looking.
#7 Frank Chantry on 2023-07-31 20:33 (Reply)

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