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Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
$28.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Two boys grow up in Thomaston, upstate New York. Louis Charles Lynch, aka Lucy, marries his childhood sweetheart and settles down to run a small empire of convenience stores. He's a good man, but he isn't always as reliable as he seems, and secretly longs for what he can't have...His best friend Bobby e ...Show more
Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
$36.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
A major new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls, this story of parents and children, of family both benevolent and malevolent, of small-town community and its hidden toxic effects, has all the glorious heart we have come to expect from a Russo novel but with a tough new edge and a ...Show more
Chances Are by Richard Russo
$30.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: very good
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.
Chances Are... (A Novel) by Richard Russo
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Russo's first standalone novel in a decade is a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship.
Elsewhere: A Memoir by Richard Russo
$0.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
After eight commanding works of fiction, the Pulitzer Prize winner now turns to memoir in a hilarious, moving, and always surprising account of his life, his parents, and the upstate New York town they all struggled variously to escape. Anyone familiar with Richard Russo's acclaimed novels will recogniz ...Show more
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
$34.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
History and humanity flow through Empire Falls, Maine, like the strange flotsam washed up at the bend of the vast, slow-moving Knox River. The Whiting family, owners of the mills and the shirt factory, have sold out to a multinational. The Whiting men have invariably married women who make their lives a ...Show more
Everybody's Fool by Richard Russo
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Richard Russo's new novel takes place in the decaying American town of North Bath over the course of a very busy weekend, ten years after the events of Nobody's Fool. Donald 'Sully' Sullivan is trying to ignore his cardiologist's estimate that he has only a year or two left. Ruth, his long-time lover, i ...Show more
Everybody's Fool by Richard Russo
$36.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Richard Russo's new novel takes place in the decaying American town of North Bath over the course of a very busy weekend, ten years after the events of Nobody's Fool. Donald 'Sully' Sullivan is trying to ignore his cardiologist's estimate that he has only a year or two left. Ruth, his long-time lover, i ...Show more
It Occurs to Me That I Am America - New Stories and Art by Richard Russo; Joyce Carol Oates; Neil Gaiman; Lee Child; Mary Higgins Clark; Jonathan Santlofer (Editor); Viet Thanh Nguyen (Introduction by)
$29.99 NZD
Category: Essays & Anthologies
A provocative, unprecedented anthology featuring original short stories on what it means to be an American from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen: "This chorus of brilliant voices articulating the shape and texture of con ...Show more
It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art by Richard Russo
$46.99 NZD
Category: Politics
In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump Inauguration and the Women's March, this provocative, unprecedented anthology features original short stories from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors-including Alice Walker, Richard Russo, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Neil G ...Show more
Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo
$32.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
In the small town of North Bath, it is Thanksgiving and Sully, Miss Beryl's ne'er-do-well lodger, has problems; his knee is acting up, his ex-wife is finally cracking up, his mistress is giving him the cold shoulder and, though well on in life, he still hasn't come to terms with the memory of his violen ...Show more
Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo
$20.00 NZD
Category: No Category
Richard Russo's slyly funny and moving novel follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbeat town in upstate New York - and in the life of one of its unluckiest citizens, Sully, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years...Divorced from his own wife and carrying on halfheart ...Show more