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Nobody's Fool


A Literary Fiction Novel


Book 1 of the North Bath Trilogy Series


Subgenres:

  • Small-Town Fiction,
  • Family Drama,
  • Upstate New York
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Blue-collar towns where luck never seems to change
  • Flawed father-son relationships with stubborn humor
  • Stories that find warmth in everyday screwups
Publisher Description

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.

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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