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Tragikomický příběh se odehrává v zapadlém průmyslovém městečku Empire Falls, které těžce postihl krach místního dřevařského a textilního impéria. Hlavní hrdina Miles Roby sleduje pozvolný úpadek svého rodného města z ošumělého bistra, které vede od chvíle kdy odešel z vysoké školy, aby se mohl postarat o nemocnou matku. Miles je slušný člověk, ale jeho slušnost se dá stěží odlišit od pasivity, takže nyní jenom bezmocně trčí v zapadákově z něhož se zoufale pokoušel uniknout. Nemůže se vzepřít panovačné vdově Whitingové, jejíž rodině kdysi patřilo celé město a která mu dosud vládne železnou rukou. Nemůže zachránit svou bývalou manželku před dalším sňatkem, nemůže zkrotit svého výtržnického otce ani ochránit svoji zbožňovanou dceru. Nemůže vůbec nic, jenom doufat, že mu paní Whitingová odprodá bistro a on bude moci konečně odvézt svou milovanou Tick někam, kde jí bude moci zajistit lepší život. Autor s nesmírnou přesností zaznamenává propletence vztahů v malém městě. Prokazuje mimořádný cit pro rytmus maloměstského života a v jeho vyprávění se mísí neuctivý, posměšný humor s hlubokým pochopením pro slabosti jeho hrdinů.

Nositel Pulitzerovy ceny Richard Russo přichází s novým románem o nezdolnosti přátelství a o jeho složité povaze. Jednoho zářijového dne se na ostrově u pobřeží Massachusetts ve svých šestašedesáti letech sejdou tři kamarádi. Vidí se poprvé od vysoké školy, a už tehdy se snad nemohli víc lišit — natož dnes. Lincoln je realitní makléř, Teddy vlastní malé vydavatelství a Mickey je muzikant za zenitem. Každý z nich má své vlastní tajemství, nemluvě o kolosální záhadě, která jim už více než čtyřicet let vrtá hlavou. Strhující příběh o tom, že pouta přátelství mohou člověka omezovat a zároveň mu prospívat úplně stejně jako vazby uvnitř rodiny či jakéhokoli jiného společenství.

"One of the best blends of SF and mystery yet written." — Science Fiction Chronicle "Russo's San Francisco is very Bladerunner, though clearly written by somebody who knows that city well … The characters in this book are strong, the writing is solid." — SF Site In the San Francisco of the not-too-distant future, detective Frank Carlucci agrees to look into the disappearance of his daughter's friend. His investigations reveal layer upon layer of corruption and decay, culminating in the discovery of "Cancer Cell," a mysterious renegade medical group. Operating out of the city's anarchistic free-zone, these terrorists possess a bioengineered form of hemorrhagic fever — a modern-day plague with the potential to kill millions — that they're ready to turn loose on the world. Author Richard Paul Russo twice received the Philip K. Dick Award: in 1989, for his second novel, Subterranean Gallery, and in 2001 for Ship of Fools. This hard-boiled thriller is the third volume of the critically acclaimed Carlucci Trilogy, consisting of Destroying Angel, Carlucci's Edge, and Carlucci's Heart. All three works offer a gripping combination of classic noir mystery and futuristic cyberpunk fiction.

Richard Russo's new novel takes place in the decaying American town of North Bath over the course of a very busy weekend, ten years after the events of Nobody's Fool. Donald 'Sully' Sullivan is trying to ignore his cardiologist's estimate that he has only a year or two left. Ruth, his long-time lover, is increasingly distracted by her former son-in-law, fresh out of prison and intent on making trouble. Police chief Doug Raymer is tormented by the improbable death of his wife, while local wiseguy Carl Roebuck might finally be running out of luck

"Russo has an excellent eye for the urban landscape [and] the crime writer's well-tuned ear for vernacular … from street punks right up to the high-level officials." — Asimov's Science Fiction In the San Francisco of the future, technology advances while society declines. Against a vividly realized urban backdrop, one of the police force's last honest cops is trying to trace the connection between a series of seemingly unrelated murders. Detective Frank Carlucci manages to thwart his crooked department's efforts to block his investigations — only to discover an even deeper pit of corruption in the form of a black market run by political officials. Author Richard Paul Russo twice received the Philip K. Dick Award: in 1989, for his second novel, Subterranean Gallery, and in 2001 for Ship of Fools. This hard-boiled thriller is the second volume of the critically acclaimed Carlucci Trilogy, consisting of Destroying Angel, Carlucci's Edge, and Carlucci's Heart. All three works offer a gripping combination of classic noir mystery and futuristic cyberpunk fiction. "One of the best blends of SF and mystery yet written." — Science Fiction Chronicle "Russo's latest SF crime novel is mean streets, callous megacorps, venal politicians, and ordinary lowlifes in a jam … Russo's characters succeed in stirring our empathy, but their strangeness is what holds our attention." — Analog

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author returns to the characters that captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of readers in his beloved bestsellers Nobody's Fool and Everybody's Fool.

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls, this slyly funny, moving novel about a blue-collar town in upstate New York—and about Sully, one of its unluckiest citizens, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years—is a classic American story. "Remarkable.... A revelation of the human heart." —The Washington Post Divorced from his own wife and carrying on halfheartedly with another man's, saddled with a bum knee and friends who make enemies redundant, Sully now has one new problem to cope with: a long-estranged son who is in imminent danger of following in his father's footsteps. With its uproarious humor and a heart that embraces humanity's follies as well as its triumphs, Nobody's Fool, from Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Richard Russo, is storytelling at its most generous. Nobody’s Fool was made into a movie starring Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Jessica Tandy, and Melody Griffith. Look for Everybody’s Fool, available now, and Somebody’s Fool, coming soon.

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"Truly gripping . . . a lot more realistic than most near-future SF, as well as being just plain better written than most of it." — Science Fiction Chronicle In the crumbling San Francisco of tomorrow, a former narcotics-squad cop is reluctantly drawn into the investigation of a serial killer's return. Louis Tanner recognizes the ugly work of the Chain Killer, a maniac who dispatches his victims two at a time, welding the corpses together in a grotesque embrace and dumping them into a body of water. Tanner's troubled conscience from a previous case compels him to reunite with his former colleague, Frank Carlucci. Together, they enter the city's notorious red-light district, chasing a vicious drug dealer who forces them even deeper into the underworld — where police are powerless and the foulest criminals live in contempt of the law. Author Richard Paul Russo twice received the Philip K. Dick Award: in 1989, for his second novel, Subterranean Gallery, and in 2001 for Ship of Fools. This hard-boiled thriller is the first volume of the critically acclaimed Carlucci Trilogy, consisting of Destroying Angel, Carlucci's Edge, and Carlucci's Heart. All three works offer a gripping combination of classic noir mystery and futuristic cyberpunk fiction.

Hilarious and true-to-life, witty, compassionate, and impossible to put down, Straight Man follows Hank Devereaux through one very bad week in this novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls. • Now the AMC Original Series Lucky Hank. William Henry Devereaux, Jr., is the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt. Devereaux's reluctance is partly rooted in his character—he is a born anarchist—and partly in the fact that his department is more savagely divided than the Balkans. In the course of a single week, Devereaux will have his nose mangled by an angry colleague, imagine his wife is having an affair with his dean, wonder if a curvaceous adjunct is trying to seduce him with peach pits, and threaten to execute a goose on local television. All this while coming to terms with his philandering father, the dereliction of his youthful promise, and the ominous failure of certain vital body functions. In short, Straight Man is classic Russo—side-splitting, poignant, compassionate, and unforgettable. Look for Richard Russo's new book, Somebody's Fool, coming soon.

"It turns out that Russo the nonfiction writer is a lot like Russo the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. He is affably disagreeable, wry, idiosyncratic, vulnerably bighearted, a craftsman of lubricated sentences."--Jay Fielden, New York Times Book Review A master of the novel, short story, and memoir, the best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Everybody's Fool now gives us his very first collection of personal essays, ranging throughout writing and reading and living. In these nine essays, Richard Russo provides insight into his life as a writer, teacher, friend, and reader. From a commencement speech he gave at Colby College, to the story of how an oddly placed toilet made him reevaluate the purpose of humor in art and life, to a comprehensive analysis of Mark Twain's value, to his harrowing journey accompanying a dear friend as she pursued gender-reassignment surgery, The Destiny Thief reflects the broad interests and experiences of one of America's most beloved authors. Warm, funny, wise, and poignant, the essays included here traverse Russo's writing life, expanding our understanding of who he is and how his singular, incredibly generous mind works. An utter joy to read, they give deep insight into the creative process from the prospective of one of our greatest writers.

This updated edition, published for the first time in trade paperback, includes all-new essays to celebrate eight additional stores. My Bookstore is the enthusiastic, heartfelt, sometimes humorous tribute by 92 known authors to their favorite independent bookstores.

A magnificent, big-hearted new novel and an astounding achievement ("The Boston Globe," this national bestseller is from the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Empire Falls."

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls comes a wonderfully written novel about a small town in New York whose citizens have fallen on hard times. "Immensely readable and sympathetic.... Mr. Russo has an instinctive gift for capturing the rhythms of small-town life." —The New York Times Mohawk, New York, is one of those small towns that lie almost entirely on the wrong side of the tracks. 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, 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. Look for Richard Russo's new book, Somebody's Fool, coming soon.

This dazzling collection of four stories features characters bound together by their parallel moments of reckoning with their pasts—and proves the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls is also a master of the short story. “Beautiful…. Will abruptly break your heart.” —The New York Times The characters in these four expansive stories are a departure from the blue-collar denizens that populate so many of Richard Russo’s novels. In “Horseman,” a young professor confronts an undergraduate plagiarist—as well as her own regrets. In “Intervention,” a realtor facing a serious medical prognosis finds himself in his late father’s shadow. “Voice” gives us a semiretired academic who is conned by his estranged brother into joining a group tour of the Venice Biennale. And “Milton and Marcus” takes us into a lapsed novelist’s attempt to rekindle his screenwriting career—a career that depends wholly, at a crucial moment, on two Hollywood icons (one living, one dead). Look for Richard Russo's new book, Somebody's Fool, coming soon.

Jack and Joy Griffin are back on Cape Cod - where they spent their hope-filled honeymoon - for a wedding. Cracks are begining to show in Jack's peaceful family life and thirty-four year marriage. He's driving round with his father's ashes in an urn in the boot of his car, haunted by memories of bittersweet family holidays spent at the Cape, while his ascerbic mother is very much alive and always on his mobile. 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.

À l’heure où Donald Trump quitte la Maison Blanche et que les États-Unis entrent dans une nouvelle ère, America tire sa révérence avec un dernier numéro agrémenté pour l’occasion d’un poster inédit et d’une vingtaine de pages supplémentaires. Dans ce 16ème opus, retrouvez d’abord un grand entretien avec l’écrivain irlando-américain Colum McCann qui nous avait fait l’honneur de participer au premier numéro. Persuadé du rôle déterminant de la littérature, l’auteur livre ses inquiétudes nouvelles mais aussi ses espoirs face à l’inconnue de ces années post-Trump. Alors que Joe Biden vient d’être élu 46ème président, America s’interroge sur l’avenir de l’Amérique à travers des portraits de figures démocrates, un reportage sur le devenir du trumpisme ou encore un essai sur les GAFA, les autres maitres du pays. Autre temps forts de ce numéro, un conte fantastique inédit de la star de la BD Emil Ferris inspiré de la trouble période du confinement, une nouvelle de l’immense écrivain Ernest Hemingway, encore jamais publiée en France, ainsi que le parti pris de l’auteure Rachel Kushner qui imagine la conclusion minable de la relation entre le fils de Donald Trump et sa petite amie, métaphore du désamour du pays pour la défaite en hommage au film « Shame ».

Веселая и честная, сострадательная и остроумная история длиной в одну невозможную неделю, случившуюся в жизни Хэнка Деверо. С неохотой и против собственной природы Уильям Генри Деверо Младший, предпочитающий, чтобы его звали запросто Хэнк, руководит английской кафедрой в захудалом колледже где-то в ржавом поясе Пенсильвании. Сам Хэнк по натуре наблюдатель и анархист, но кафедра стремительно разваливается даже без его усилий. В течение недели Хэнку предстоит пройти через массу испытаний и даже катастроф. Рассвирепевшая коллега разобьет ему нос, аспирантка попытается его соблазнить, по местному ТВ его обвинят в казни гуся, родной отец прибудет с желанием примириться навсегда, а некоторые функции организма вдруг объявят забастовку. Печальный и смешной роман про академических неудачников, про свободу-несвободу и просто про хороших людей.

David und Ellie, zwei gutsituierte, in der Großstadt lebende, pensionierte Akademiker sind zufrieden mit ihrem Leben. Bis zu dem Tag, an dem Donald Trump zum Präsidenten gewählt wird. Plötzlich wird ihnen alles fremd: ihr Land, ihr Leben, sie sich selbst. Ihre Tochter, die längst im liberalen Kalifornien lebt, kann ihnen nicht helfen. Und dann ist da noch dieser Freund, von dem sie glauben, dass er nur so tut, als hätte er Hillary gewählt … Spätestens als Ellie eines Tages Fäkalien im eigenen Pool entdeckt, findet die ›Sh*tshow‹ nicht mehr nur im metaphorischen Sinne statt. Aber dieser spektakulär niederträchtige Akt des Vandalismus ist nur das erste in ei-ner Kette politischer und privater Ereignisse, die sich verheerend auf die eigentlich so behagliche Existenz des Paares auswirken. Richard Russo hat eine eindringliche Parabel geschrieben, in der er von den tiefen, oft unmerklichen Rissen zwischen Freunden, Nachbarn, Familien und selbst Liebenden erzählt, die im Zuge gewichtiger gesellschaftlicher Veränderungen entstehen: Das Politische ist oft privater, als wir meinen.

Lou C. Lynch, bijgenaamd 'Lucy' , woont al zijn hele leven in Thomastton, New York. Hij is veertig jaar getrouw met Sarah en hun zoon is inmiddels een volwassen man die op het punt staat het familiebedrijf over te nemen. Lucy is een dromer en een echte optimist, een karaktereigenschap die hij van zijn vader heeft geërfd. Zijn moeder, die nog steeds volop ontembaar in leven is, is de drijvende kracht achter zijn bestaan. Dankzij haar scherpe intelligentie, gecombineerd met het optimisme van de Lynches, heeft de familie zich ontworsteld aan haar sociale status. Nu bereiden Lucy en Sarah zich voor op hun -eerste en enige- reis naar Italië, waar Lucy's oudste vriend Noonan woont. Noonan verkoos, in tegenstelling tot Lucy, de vrijheid boven het beperkste, kleinsteedse milieu van Thomaston en is inmiddels een beroemd kunstenaar. Ter voorbereiding op hun reis besluit Lucy zijn geschiedenis toe te vertrouwen aan zijn dagboeken, in de hoop daarmee het mysterie van zijn en Sarah's vriendschap met Noonan te ontrafelen.

Iedereen die bekend is met Russo s werk zal Gloversville, ooit beroemd om zijn productie van handschoenen en andere lederwaren, herkennen. Hier groeide de auteur op, de enige zoon van een eerzuchtige moeder en een charmante, onhandige vader die allebei zijn geboren in deze hechte gemeenschap. In zijn kindertijd moest voorspoed onverbiddelijk plaatsmaken voor armoede en ziekte de looierijen verdwenen en had men moeite de eindjes aan elkaar te knopen. Russo heeft een hartverscheurend verhaal geschreven over zijn moeder, wat hij pas heeft kunnen doen nadat ze was overleden. Dit memoir zal veel bij lezers losmaken, omdat we nu eenmaal allemaal een moeder hebben of hebben gehad zij het lang niet allemaal een met een obsessieve-compulsieve stoornis.