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NOBODY'S FOOL
by
Richard Russo

POOL.

"NOBODY'S FOOL is big, funny and richly human, a garrulous book that
buttonholes you in the first few pages and does not let you go ... ISBN
0-09-957191-8 Fiction 9780099574910 Cover photograph: TM, , 1994

VINTAGE U. K.

NOBODY'S FOOL

Richard Russo was born in New York state in 1949. His two previous
novels, Mohawk and The Risk Pool, were highly praised, and Nobody's
Fool is being made into a major motion picture. Russo teaches at Colby
College in Waterville, Maine, where he lives with his wife and two
daughters.

BY RICHARD RUSSO

The Risk Pool Mohawk Nobody's Fool Thanksgiving in the spa community of
North Bath, upstate New York: the springs have run dry, the visitors
have stopped coming and the elms are withering. Unluckier than most,
but trudging around bar-rooms and building sites with a couple of lives
to spare, is Sully, the hero of Richard Russo's terrific suburban
sprawl of a novel... Out of a single week, Russo lifts a generous slice
of middle America in all its flavours: oddity in the midst of
conformity, hope in the face of decline, philosophy in the diner, sex
in office hours. Nobody's Fool is a great-hearted, unforgettable
comedy in the best tradition of John Irving and Anne Tyler." Glyn
Maxwell, Vogue "This is a novel of charm and wit, akin to the work of
Alice Hoffman, Anne Tyler or Garrison Keillor. Like them, Russo offers
a golden world, troubled and shadowed at the edges but one in which a
spirit of comedy prevails. Like them, his work offers guaranteed
pleasures: old-fashioned story-telling; lovingly presented characters
whose fundamental goodness is never at all in doubt; a locale
thoroughly known and precisely observed and conclusions that are
sentimental and life-affirming. Salinger defined sentimentality as
showing a thing more tenderness than God would give it. Well, on this
showing, God is a mean git and Russo is generosity itself." James

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