Richard Russo
Paperback | Pages: 483 pages Rating: 3.93 | 104754 Users | 4305 Reviews
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| Title | : | Empire Falls |
| Author | : | Richard Russo |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 483 pages |
| Published | : | April 12th 2002 by Vintage (first published 2001) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Contemporary |
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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 graceIdentify Books Toward Empire Falls
| Original Title: | Empire Falls |
| ISBN: | 0375726403 (ISBN13: 9780375726408) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Miles Roby, Zack Minty, John Voss, Janine Roby, Max Roby, Charlie Mayne |
| Setting: | Maine(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2002), Ambassador Book Award for Fiction (2002) |
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Ratings: 3.93 From 104754 Users | 4305 ReviewsEvaluation Regarding Books Empire Falls
Empire Falls is not something I would have picked up on my own, but it came to me highly recommended, so I put a hold on the audiobook at my library and it finally came in. This was a wonderful book and Ron McLarty is an excellent narrator. I can't really add to what hundreds of people have already said, so I'll just say I enjoyed the hell out of this tale, where nothing much really happens, but I feel like I know everyone in this town intimately. Highly recommended!Empire Falls, Maine is a town thats best days are long behind it. The mill and factory that used to be the main employers have been closed for years, and the only person around with two dimes to rub together is the very rich Francine Whiting who essentially owns and controls everything worth having in the area. Miles Robey was on the verge of earning his college degree and escaping Empire Falls forever when he returned home to care for his dying mother and ended up working for Mrs. Whiting as
This is a wonderful book! It follows the every day lives of the residents of Empire Falls, a small town in Maine, that has seen better days. I loved the setting the scenes chapter at the beginning of the book, showing the town in a more prosperous time when the mill and shirt factory were open and employment was high.Now Miles manages the Empire Grill restaurant. He has a uncomfortable relationship with the matriarch of Empire Falls founding family, Mrs Whiting, who is also the owner of Empire
A serious novel about small towns where everyone knows everyone else - and has for generations. I loved this book, as melancholy as it was. I loved the history of the characters and the town itself - although you really could not separate the two. Russo is one of my new favorite authors. He has such compassion for his characters.
This was the BEST book I've read in quite a while. I had actually seen the HBO miniseries based on this a few years back and enjoyed it but didn't think about reading the book until someone told me it's everything Twilight isn't: well-written, complicated, fully-developed characters, good story, strong dialogue, etc, etc.Sold! That's not to say there's any reason to compare it to Twilight. It's not about vampires or in the same genre or league. The Maine town of Empire Falls is probably like
Big novel about a little place in Maine. The town is in decline and the novel presents numerous characters and plots and overtells most of them, rather than let everyone speak for himself or circumstances to reveal meaning, the author piles on the evidence and looks in on characters thinking without revealing their complexity. If scenes dont repeat themselves, what they represent about the characters or fate of the town and its people do. Too much of the storytelling is pedestrian, though Russo
I suspect that most people reading this review do NOT live in the hometown where they were born. You didnt marry your high school sweetheart and/or, going on forty, youre not still secretly in love with an old sweetheart who still lives in town. You dont live in a couple of sleazy rooms above the diner you run. Your ex-alcoholic brother and your borderline anorexic teen-aged daughter dont flip burgers and wait tables for you. Your ex-wifes new husband doesnt hang out drinking coffee at the lunch
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