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Also by Richard Russo:

Elsewhere: A Memoir, November 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
That Old Cape Magic, August 2009
Hardcover
A Healing Touch, June 2008
Hardcover
Bridge of Sighs, October 2007
Hardcover
Empire Falls, May 2005
Paperback
The Whore's Child: Stories, July 2003
Paperback
Empire Falls, April 2002
Paperback
Straight Man, June 1998
Paperback
Nobody's Fool, April 1994
Paperback
Mohawk, April 1994
Paperback
The Risk Pool, April 1994
Paperback

EMPIRE FALLS
By: Richard Russo

Vintage
April 2002
On Sale: April 12, 2002
496 pages
ISBN: 0375726403
EAN: 9780375726408
Paperback
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Fiction

With Empire Falls Richard Russo cements his reputation as one of America’s most compelling and compassionate storytellers.

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.