Empire Falls

Name: Empire Falls
Author: Richard Russo
ISBN: 9781952535581

Richard Russo

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Empire Falls

Richard Russo

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#496 of 8,085 books · #259 in Fiction

Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2002).

Empire Falls won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. 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 grace.

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