There are no fools
19.99 €
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There are no fools
19.99 €
One of Richard Russo's best novels. A witty and touching story of how the sleepy backwoods town of North Bath descends either a grace or a curse - here each of its inhabitants chooses for himself. Donald Sullivan, whom everyone calls Sully, is sixty, and all his life he has made nothing but mistakes, even though he is not a fool. He is lonely, though surrounded by a crowd of people, his bad knee sometimes prevents him from moving normally, his friends are such that sometimes he doesn't need enemies, and problems fall on Sully one after another, or maybe he finds them himself. All his life he relied only on himself, he chose his own way, and if this way led to a dead end, then he was a fool. A hard childhood with an oppressive father, an unhappy marriage, one failure after another - that's Sully, but no one can call him a loser, because Sully himself chooses who he is. And here is a new problem: in North Bath came a son, with whom Sully and barely know, and do something with him - otherwise he will repeat the unenviable fate of Sully, a man who attracts trouble, big and small. Late fall and the coming winter become another "stupid streak" in the life of "no-fool" Donald Sullivan, and he will once again set out to overcome this streak, once again choosing the path of self-destruction, on which there will be equally cheerful and bitter.
"No Fools" is the first book of a trilogy about the town of North Bath, a true encyclopedia of life in the American backwoods. Irony, humor, warmth, humanity and charming characters. This is a novel about the fact that stupidity, made by people, sometimes can be much smarter and nobler than the actions of calculating and correct.
"No Fools" is the first book of a trilogy about the town of North Bath, a true encyclopedia of life in the American backwoods. Irony, humor, warmth, humanity and charming characters. This is a novel about the fact that stupidity, made by people, sometimes can be much smarter and nobler than the actions of calculating and correct.
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