![]() ![]() That it won the Pulitzer Prize in a year where the other two major American literary awards went to Bel Canto and The Corrections, says enough about how well Russo succeeds at everything he sets out to do in the book. It makes, not only the town itself, but, more importantly, the people in that town come vividly to life. It has scenes of side-splitting humor and lines that break off parts of each chapter that make you pause for a minute and think. ![]() It has a character who has managed to become a smart, upstanding member of the community in spite of the absence of a real father in his life. It takes place in a small fictional town that has gone to seed, though this time it is Maine instead of New York. The Novel: Empire Falls fits well into Richard Russo’s work. Bumping, nudging, seeking, until finally a small section of the structure gave way and they were gone.” Last Lines: “Together, dead woman and living cat bumped along the upstream edge of the straining dam, as if searching for a place to climb out and over.First Line: “Compared to the Whiting mansion in town, the house Charles Beaumont Whiting built a decade after his return to Maine was modest.”.The hardcover dust jacket of Richard Russo's Pulitzer Prize winning Empire Falls (2001) ![]()
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