Richard Russo

Empire Falls

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Empire Falls, Maine: once a thriving hub of industry, this small town nestles in a bend of the vast and winding Knox River, and has always been the empire of the wealthy Whiting family. She harbours a grudge against her employee Miles Groby, who runs the Whiting-owned Empire Grill, but hopes one day to own it himself.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 643037
• Seitenzahl: 483
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 129mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 344g
• ISBN-13: 9780099422273
• ISBN-10: 0099422271
• Artikelnr.: 10608906

Autorenporträt

Richard Russo won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for his fifth novel, Empire Falls . He is also the author of Mohawk, The Risk Pool, Nobody's Fool, Straight Man, Bridge of Sighs and That Old Cape Magic, as well as a collection of stories, The Whore's Child; and a memoir, On Helwig Street. His original screenplay is the basis for Rowan Atkinson's film Keeping Mum. He lives with his wife in Maine.

Rezensionen

I loved Richard Russo's Pulitzer-winning Empire Falls, a moving, brilliantly imagined and intensely satisfying novel about the slow death of a small town: Russo's characters are as loveable and as exasperating as family Nick Hornby