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In case you haven't read Nobody's Fool, Richard Russo's well-regarded prequel to this, fear not: it's not remotely necessary to have read it before reading (and enjoying) Everybody's Fool. I barely remember the precursor, (which I think I liked; not really sure). There'll be no room for doubt on this one: without a doubt, one of the best books I've read this year. Perhaps as good as his 2002 Pulitzer Winner Empire Falls. Maybe even a teensy bit better, as it's...okay, not compact (at close to 5...
Richard Russo has not lost his touch, and that's for true. The sequel to Nobody's Fool is every bit as funny, morbid, and touching as its predecessor. Sully is a wonderfully lovable protagonist. The 10 year gap in literary time between the two books invites comparison to Updike's Rabbit tetrology, and indeed the descriptions of love, loss, remorse, and hope echo as strongly and vibrantly under Russo's pen as they do under Updike's. On the other hand, Sully's story is less bound to the decades it...
I doubt I’m the only one who’s ever driven through small town America and wondered, “What do these people do?” I’m not proud of my snobbery, but cop to it because I also know how to counter it. The antidote, as I’m sure you’ve all figured, is Richard Russo. His latest, a return to North Bath in upstate New York, offers a ready answer: they have lives. We who are high on our horses may look down and not see it, but these people have conflicts, interactions, feelings, flaws, and wisdom – pretty mu...
This story is a lot like the author’s Empire Falls. This one is set in a declining town in upstate New York instead of Maine, but we have a lot of down-and-out folks and a lot of the action occurs in a diner or in bars. The story is kind of catalog of how hard-scrabble folks look at their lives and deal with the bad cards they keep getting. From the blurbs for his other books “…friends who make enemies redundant.” And “those small towns that lie almost entirely on the wrong side of the tracks.”
This is a follow-up to "Nobody's Fool" but the protagonists have enough backstory - and are so vividly depicted - that it can be read as a standalone. I found the story engaging, touching, and funny - filled with great characters and memorable scenes. The story revolves around Police Chief Douglas Raymer, who has a lot on his plate.The story takes place in the down-on-its-luck town of North Bath in upstate New York. As the book opens, Chief of Police Douglas Raymer is attending the funeral of Ju...
A fun journey back to small town Bath, New York with some of the old and a few new faces too.....at least to my recollection.Truth be told, it did take me a while to get back into the story again, and I would have liked more of Sully overall, but before long, I was hooked on Russo's writing and the kooky fun-loving characters from Nobody's Fool.Get ready for plenty of laughs, a few crazy visits to the cemetery, and a scary prognosis. We also encounter a creepy psychopath, a vile, disgusting piec...
If Richard Russo wasn’t a great writer he might have made a pretty good physicist because he seems to know all about inertia. Or at least he’s an expert at having his characters struggle against its force whether they're trying to get moving or change direction.This sequel to Nobody's Fool returns us to the blue collar town of Bath in upstate New York. A change in his circumstances from the previous book has made Donald Sullivan relatively prosperous with no need to work the kind of back breakin...
4★“One of the more serious obstacles to small-town adultery was the problem of what to do with your car. If you left it out at the curb, it would be noticed and maybe recognized. You could leave it a couple blocks away, but people would still conclude you were having an affair; they’d just be wrong about who you were having it with.”Sully is back, finally! Of course he’s still in Bath, New York, a small town whose claim to fame was its mineral baths, long gone now, as are the tourists and the to...
I have been waiting for ages to read this author who everyone raves about. I obviously picked the wrong book for my first experience and I am so disappointed!The title is totally spot on. Everyone in the book is a fool and this became very irritating. The humour ranges from distasteful (that poor dog!) to slap stick. I have never been able to laugh at people or animals being hurt.On the one hand I can clearly see the author's talent and skill but at the same time I did not like the way he applie...
"So what's a cobra doing in upstate New York?" To find out the answer to this existential question we need to return to North Bath, a serious contender for the Unluckiest City in America Award. It's been ten years since the events described in "Nobody's Fool" and little has changed apparently in this jinxed, destitute urbis. Sully, the protagonist of the first episode, has had a bit of personal luck in the financial department, but he has a new set of worries now that he is in his sixties: bore
