Bøger af Richard Russo

Miles Roby har langet burgere over disken i Empire Grill i tyve år, og derfra kan han se ned ad hovedgaden i den engang så driftige industriby Empire Falls og fornemme byens puls, som nu slår meget langsomt. For Whiting-familien, der ejer fabrikkerne og det meste andet på egnen, har flyttet produktionen væk fra byen, og det har skruet livet i Empire Falls ned på vågeblus.Så det er bekymrede kunder, der letter deres hjerte over for Miles – som har sine helt egne problemer. Hans kone er faldet for ejeren af det lokale fitnesscenter og vil skilles, hans begavede datter og øjesten har store problemer med lærerne og de øvrige elever i skolen, og Francine Whiting, der ejer Empire Grill og ser ud til at tro, at ejerskabet også omfatter Miles, vil ikke lade ham modernisere stedet. Det har hun sine helt private og grumme grunde til, finder Miles efterhånden ud af.

Sully bor i en lille by nord for New York. Han er 60 år gammel og på ingen måde fuldkommen. Han er arbejdsløs – bortset fra lidt sort arbejde af og til, når det byder sig og helbreddet tillader det – fattig, plaget af et ødelagt knæ, og han er for alvor begyndt at spekulere på, om hans held er sluppet op. Og det er det! Bankdirektørsønnen af den gamle kvinde, han bor til leje hos, vil have ham sat ud af lejligheden. Hans søn, som han ikke har det tætteste forhold til, kommer hjem til Thanksgiving og bliver hængende, fordi konen vil skilles. Sullys egen overspændte ekskone er på vej mod et nervøst sammenbrud, og hans elskerinde gennem mange år bebrejder ham, at hendes datter er endt på hospitalet med en brækket kæbe.Men det, der plager Sully mest, er de erindringer, som dagligt hjemsøger ham, om hans voldelige og slyngelagtige far. Richard Russo er en mester i at skildre livet og menneskene i den amerikanske provinsby med indlevelse, humor og varme. Det så vi i 'Empire Falls', som vandt Pulitzer-prisen, og det ser vi igen i 'Hvem er fuldkommen?' 'Hvem er fuldkommen?' er filmatiseret med Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Bruce Willis og Melanie Griffith i hovedrollerne.

Her er tale om en udsædvanligt velskrevet litterær roman, der indlevende beskriver mandlige venskaber og som samtidig lader et gammelt mysterie dukke op til overfladen.Det er den Pulitzervindende Russo, når han er bedst, og med introduktionen af thriller-elementer og en egen postironisk tyngde, løfter han sig til nye højder.

Hank Devereaux, a fifty-year-old, one-time novelist now serving as temporary chair of the English department, has more than a mid-life crisis to contend with when he learns that he must cull 20 per cent of his department to meet budget.

Mohawk, New York, is one of those small towns that lie almost entirely on the wrong side of the tracks. Its citizens, too, have fallen on hard times. Dallas Younger, a star athlete in high school, now drifts from tavern to poker game, losing money, and, inevitably, another set of false teeth. His ex-wife, Anne, is stuck in a losing battle with her mother over the care of her sick father. And their son, Randall, is deliberately neglecting his school work--because in a place like Mohawk it doesn't pay to be too smart. In Mohawk, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Richard Russo, explores these lives with profound compassion and flint-hard wit. Out of derailed ambitions and old loves, secret hatreds and communal myths, he has created a richly plotted, densely populated, and wonderfully written novel that captures every nuance of America's backyard.

Peut-on vivre sans amour ? L'amour parental est-il suffisant ? [ajouter beaucoup d'autres questions] Tant de questions auxquelles il peut parfois être dur de répondre parce qu'on n'a pas tout dit ou parce qu'on ne sait pas y répondre. Peut-être bien plus qu'une simple histoire merveilleuse, ce récit est, ou n'est pas, une source de plaisir, par le voyage imaginaire, à travers lequel elle plonge le lecteur. Sa lecture peut aussi être l'occasion de se confronter à ce que l'on n'ose affronter.

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and to the characters that captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of readers in his beloved best sellers Nobody’s Fool and Everybody’s Fool.Ten years after the death of the magnetic Donald “Sully” Sullivan, the town of North Bath is going through a major transition as it is annexed by its much wealthier neighbor, Schuyler Springs. Peter, Sully’s son, is still grappling with his father’s tremendous legacy as well as his relationship to his own son, Thomas, wondering if he has been all that different a father than Sully was to him.Meanwhile, the towns’ newly consolidated police department falls into the hands of Charice Bond, after the resignation of Doug Raymer, the former North Bath police chief and Charice’s ex-lover. When a decomposing body turns up in the abandoned hotel situated between the two towns, Charice and Raymer are drawn together again and forced to address their complicated attraction to one another. Across town, Ruth, Sully’s married ex-lover, and her daughter Janey struggle to understand Janey’s daughter, Tina, and her growing obsession with Peter’s other son, Will. Amidst the turmoil, the town’s residents speculate on the identity of the unidentified body, and wonder who among their number could have disappeared unnoticed.Infused with all the wry humor and shrewd observations that Russo is known for, Somebody's Fool is another classic from a modern master.

"Ten years after the death of the magnetic Donald 'Sully' Sullivan, the town of North Bath is going through a major transition as it is annexed by its much wealthier neighbor, Schuyler Springs. Peter, Sully's son, is still grappling with his father's tremendous legacy as well as his relationship to his own son Thomas, wondering if he has been all that different a father than Sully was to him. Meanwhile, the town's newly consolidated police department falls into the hands of Charice Bond after the resignation of Doug Raymer, the former North Bath police chief and Charice's ex-lover. When a decomposing body turns up in the abandoned hotel situated between the two towns, Charice and Raymer are drawn together again and forced to address their complicated attraction to one another"--

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and to the characters that captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of readers in his beloved best sellers Nobody’s Fool and Everybody’s Fool.“Sumptuous, spirited . . . [Russo] paints a shining fresco of a working-class community...” —The New York Times • "Another instant classic, filled with Russo's witty dialogue and warm understanding of human foibles." —People MagazineTen years after the death of the magnetic Donald “Sully” Sullivan, the town of North Bath is going through a major transition as it is annexed by its much wealthier neighbor, Schuyler Springs. Peter, Sully’s son, is still grappling with his father’s tremendous legacy as well as his relationship to his own son, Thomas, wondering if he has been all that different a father than Sully was to him.Meanwhile, the towns’ newly consolidated police department falls into the hands of Charice Bond, after the resignation of Doug Raymer, the former North Bath police chief and Charice’s ex-lover. When a decomposing body turns up in the abandoned hotel situated between the two towns, Charice and Raymer are drawn together again and forced to address their complicated attraction to one another. Across town, Ruth, Sully’s married ex-lover, and her daughter Janey struggle to understand Janey’s daughter, Tina, and her growing obsession with Peter’s other son, Will. Amidst the turmoil, the town’s residents speculate on the identity of the unidentified body, and wonder who among their number could have disappeared unnoticed.Infused with all the wry humor and shrewd observations that Russo is known for, Somebody's Fool is another classic from a modern master.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize"Russo writes with a warm, vibrant humanity.... A stirring mix of poignancy, drama and comedy." -The Washington PostWelcome 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 grace.

A wonderfully funny, perceptive novel The Risk Pool is set in Mohawk, New York, where Ned Hall is doing his best to grow up, even though neither of his estranged parents can properly be called adult. His father, Sam, cultivates bad habits so assiduously that he is stuck at the bottom of his auto insurance risk pool. His mother, Jenny, is slowly going crazy from resentment at a husband who refuses either to stay or to stay away. As Ned veers between allegiances to these grossly inadequate role models, Richard Russo gives us a book that overflows with outsized characters and outlandish predicaments and whose vision of family is at once irreverent and unexpectedly moving.   In the traditions of Thornton Wilder and Anne Tyler, The Risk Pool was hailed by The New York Times as “…superbly original and maliciously funny. Russo proves himself a master at evoking the sights, feelings, and smells of a town.”

Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Russo's first standalone novel in a decade is a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship.

A master of the novel, short story and memoir, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Everybody's Fool now gives us his very first collection of personal essays, thoughts on writing, reading and living.

Following the best-selling Everybody's Fool, a new collection of short fiction that demonstrates that Richard Russo--winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls--is also a master of this genre. Russo's characters in these four expansive stories bear little similarity to the blue-collar citizens we're familiar with from many of his novels. In "e;Horseman,"e; a professor confronts a young plagiarist as well as her own weaknesses as the Thanksgiving holiday looms closer and closer: "e;And after that, who knew?"e; In "e;Intervention,"e; a realtor facing an ominous medical prognosis finds himself in his father's shadow while he presses forward--or not. In "e;Voice,"e; a semiretired academic is conned by his increasingly estranged brother into coming along on a group tour of the Venice Biennale, fleeing a mortifying incident with a traumatized student back in Massachusetts but encountering further complications in the maze of Venice. And in "e;Milton and Marcus,"e; a lapsed novelist struggles with his wife's illness and tries to rekindle his screenwriting career, only to be stymied by the pratfalls of that trade when he's called to an aging, iconic star's mountaintop retreat in Wyoming.

This new collection of stories demonstrates that Richard Russo - winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls - is also a master of the short form.

The great American master Richard Russo, at the very top of his game, returns to the characters who made Nobody's Fool (1993) a contemporary classic.

Jack and Joy Griffin are back on Cape Cod - where they spent their hope-filled honeymoon - for a wedding. He's spent a lifetime trying to be happier than his parents, but has he succeeded?A year later, at a second wedding, Jack has a second urn in the car, and his life is starting to unravel.

A New York Times 2016 Notable BookAn immediate national best seller and instant classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls.Richard Russo returns to North Bath';a town where dishonesty abounds, everyone misapprehends everyone else and half the citizens are half-crazy' (The New York Times)and the characters who made Nobody's Fool a beloved choice of book clubs everywhere.Everybody's Fool is classic Russo, filled with humor, heart, hard times, and people you can't help but love, possibly because their various faults make them so human. Everybody's Fool picks up roughly a decade since we were last with Miss Beryl and Sully on New Year's Eve 1984. The irresistible Sully, who in the intervening years has come by some unexpected good fortune, is staring down a VA cardiologist's estimate that he has only a year or two left, and it's hard work trying to keep this news from the most important people in his life: Ruth, the married woman he carried on with for years . . . the ultra-hapless Rub Squeers, who worries that he and Sully aren'tstillbest friends . . . Sully's son and grandson, for whom he was mostly an absentee figure (and now a regretful one). We also enjoy the company of Doug Raymer, the chief of police who's obsessing primarily over the identity of the man his wife might've been about to run off with,beforedying in a freak accident . . . Bath's mayor, the former academic Gus Moynihan, whose wife problems are, if anything, even more pressing . . . and then there's Carl Roebuck, whose lifelong run of failing upward might now come to ruin. And finally, there's Charice Bonda light at the end of the tunnel that is Chief Raymer's officeas well as her brother, Jerome, who might well be the train barreling into the station. A crowning achievement';like hopping on the last empty barstool surrounded by old friends' (Entertainment Weekly)from one of the greatest storytellers of our time.

Combining elements of a noir mystery and cyberpunk fiction, this hard-boiled thriller traces an ex-cop's investigation of crimes committed by a serial killer in a crumbling San Francisco of the near future.

Detective Frank Carlucci battles a group of medical terrorists suspected of releasing a bioengineered form of hemorrhagic fever, a modern-day plague with the potential to kill millions.