Richard Russo
1) Chances are
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a new revelation: a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship. One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. They couldn't have been more different then, or even today--Lincoln's a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press...
2) Trajectory
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Collects two novellas and two short stories, including "Horseman," in which a professor confronts a student about plagiarism.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
477 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Returns to the setting of "Nobody's Fool" to find Sully confronting a daunting health prognosis, which he hides from his loved ones, including his longtime mistress, an increasingly distant best friend, and an obsessive chief of police.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
451 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and to the characters that captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of readers in his beloved best sellers Nobody's Fool and Everybody's Fool"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
261 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The lives of Jack and Joy Griffin always seem to come back to Cape Cod, where they honeymooned, as they experience the ups and downs of life, including the deaths of Jack's parents, the marriage of their daughter, and Jack and Joy's divorce.
6) Elsewhere
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
246 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a personal account of the author's youth, his parents, and the 1950s upstate New York town they struggled to escape, recounting the encroaching poverty and illness that challenged everyday life and the dreams his mother instilled that inspired his career.
7) Empire falls
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 34
Physical Desc
483 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Miles Roby, the heir to a ruined Maine logging and paper mill empire, tries to hold his family together and provide for his parents.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
527 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
After sixty years of living in the upstate New York town of Thomaston, Louis Charles and his wife of forty years, Sarah, prepare for a trip to Italy to visit Louis' childhood friend, an artist who had fled his hometown many years earlier.
9) Empire falls
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 34
Physical Desc
483 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Milo Roby tries to hold his family together while working at the Empire Grill in the once-successful logging town of Empire Falls, Maine, with his partner, Mrs. Whiting, who is the heir to a faded logging and textile legacy.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
225 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of short fiction explores the lives of a variety of characters, including a jaded Hollywood filmmaker, a precocious fifth-grader watching his parents' marriage disintegrate, and a child forced into a harrowing cross-country escape.
12) Chances are
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a new revelation: a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship. One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. They couldn't have been more different then, or even today--Lincoln's a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press...
13) Somebody's fool
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
451 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and to the characters that captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of readers in his beloved best sellers Nobody's Fool and Everybody's Fool"--
14) Bridge of sighs
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
21 sound discs (27 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After sixty years of living in the upstate New York town of Thomaston, Louis Charles and his wife of forty years, Sarah, prepare for a trip to Italy to visit Louis' childhood friend, an artist who had fled his hometown many years earlier.