- Fiction, Working class, Restaurateurs, Fathers and daughters
"Dexter County, Maine, and specifically the town of Empire Falls, has seen better days, and for decades, in fact, only a succession from bad to worse. One by one, its logging and textile enterprises have gone belly-up, and the once vast holdings of the Whiting clan (presided over by the last scion's widow) now mostly amount to decrepit real estate.
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Classical in form, earnest, contemplative and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Richard Russo
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 496
- Publisher
- Knopf, Booket, Vintage Books
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- Spanish, French, English, heb
- ISBN
- 9783832198244
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“THE EMPIRE GRILL was long and low-slung, with windows that ran its entire length, and since the building next door, a Rexall drugstore, had been condemned and razed, it was now possible to sit at the lunch counter and see straight down Empire Avenue all the way to the old textile mill and its adjacent shirt factory.”
Richard Russo (born July 15, 1949) is an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and teacher. In 2002, he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his novel *Empire Falls.* Several of his works have been adapted into television series and movies. He is known for his realistic depictions of rural, small-town life in the Northeastern United States, particularly in Maine, Pennsylvania, and Russo's native Upstate New York.
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