Everybody's Fool

Resumen del libro

A best-selling and beloved author, at the very top of his game, now returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and the characters who made Nobodys Fool, his third novel, his first great success. The irresistible Sully, who in the intervening years has come by some unexpected good fortune, is now staring down a VA cardiologists estimate that he only has a year or two left, and hes busy as hell keeping the news from the most important people in his life: Ruth, the married woman he carried on with for yearsthe ultra-hapless Rub Squeers, who worries that he and Sully arent still best friendsSullys son and grandson, for whom he was mostly an absentee figureDoug Raymer, now chief of police and still obsessing over the identity of the man his wife might have been having an affair with before she died in a freak accidentNorth Baths mayor, the former academic Gus Moynihan, who also has a pressing wife problemand then theres Carl Roebuck, whose lifelong run of failing upwards might now come to ruin. Everybodys Fool is filled with humor, heart, hard times, and characters whom you cant help but love for all their faults. It is classic Russo'and a crowning achievement from one of the greatest storytellers of our time.

Biografía del autor

Richard Russo ha escrito las novelas Mohawk, Alto riesgo, y Ni un pelo de tonto, la cual ha sido llevada al cine y protagonizada por Paul Newman. Sus últimas novelas son Straight Man y Empire Falls con la que ha ganado el Premio Pulitzer 2002.