Empire Falls
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Empire Falls
19.99 €
15.99 €
Miles Roby has been cooking burgers at the Imperial Grill for twenty years, a job that has cost him his higher education and a fair share of his self-respect.
a college education and a fair amount of self-respect. Miles is a good guy, but his character has one tragic flaw - he is not capable of decisive action. And his kindness is sometimes indistinguishable from his willingness to go with the flow. Except the currents in the town of Empire Falls are tricky. Even the Knox River makes a loop here, lashing to the shore everything it's picked up along the way. Miles, who's been trying to escape his sweltering hometown since his youth, is circling his own life. Maybe it's his smart, thin-skinned daughter, Tik, who can't survive at the local school without her father's support. Or Jeanine, Miles's soon-to-be ex-wife, who is having an affair with a narcissistic fitness club owner? Or the overbearing Francine Whiting, owner of everything in town - and it seems that "everything" includes Miles himself? Or perhaps the need to look after an old father, too combative in his obnoxious escapades? Or is it the secrets of the past that have shaped the lives of Miles and many others in the city? In "Empire Falls" Richard Russo immerses the reader in the world of small life, where so and bubbling strangeness, intrigue, passion, funny and tragic events. "Empire Falls" - a novel human, full of humor, sympathy, sadness and joy. In 2002, the book won the Pulitzer Prize. Richard Russo has hardly ever been translated into Russian (a couple of short stories in the magazine version do not count), and this is a big gap, because Russo is not only a great writer, praised by critics, crowned with awards and loved by readers, but his books should be especially close to the Russian reader.
a college education and a fair amount of self-respect. Miles is a good guy, but his character has one tragic flaw - he is not capable of decisive action. And his kindness is sometimes indistinguishable from his willingness to go with the flow. Except the currents in the town of Empire Falls are tricky. Even the Knox River makes a loop here, lashing to the shore everything it's picked up along the way. Miles, who's been trying to escape his sweltering hometown since his youth, is circling his own life. Maybe it's his smart, thin-skinned daughter, Tik, who can't survive at the local school without her father's support. Or Jeanine, Miles's soon-to-be ex-wife, who is having an affair with a narcissistic fitness club owner? Or the overbearing Francine Whiting, owner of everything in town - and it seems that "everything" includes Miles himself? Or perhaps the need to look after an old father, too combative in his obnoxious escapades? Or is it the secrets of the past that have shaped the lives of Miles and many others in the city? In "Empire Falls" Richard Russo immerses the reader in the world of small life, where so and bubbling strangeness, intrigue, passion, funny and tragic events. "Empire Falls" - a novel human, full of humor, sympathy, sadness and joy. In 2002, the book won the Pulitzer Prize. Richard Russo has hardly ever been translated into Russian (a couple of short stories in the magazine version do not count), and this is a big gap, because Russo is not only a great writer, praised by critics, crowned with awards and loved by readers, but his books should be especially close to the Russian reader.
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