Richard Russo

"In Everybody's Fool, Richard Russo returns to North Bath, the rust belt town first brought to unforgettable life in Nobody's Fool. Now, ten years later, Doug Raymer has become the chief of police and is tormented by the improbable death of his wife-- not to mention his suspicion he was a failure as a husband. Meanwhile, the irrepressible Sully has come into a small fortune, but is suddenly faced with a VA cardiologist's estimate that he only has...

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 publisher, and Mickey a musician beyond his rockin' age. But each man holds his own secrets, in addition to the monumental mystery that none of them has ever stopped puzzling over since...

Sixty-year-old Sully is down on his luck and has to deal with a landlady who wants him evicted, an estranged son who is headed down the same road as Sully, a neurotic ex-wife, unreasonable girlfriend, and the ghost of his own abusive father.

This work is the author's memoir of his life, his parents, and the upstate New York town they all struggled variously to escape. Anyone familiar with the author's fiction will recognize Gloversville, New York, once famous for producing that eponymous product and anything else made of leather. This is where the author grew up, the only son of an aspirant mother and a good-time, second-fiddle father who were born into this close-knit community. But...

A collection of nine personal essays drawn from Russo's life as a writer, teacher, son, husband, father, and friend. The essays reflect the author's broad interests and experiences, traverse his writing life, and expand our understanding of who he is and how his incredibly generous mind works.

The landmark novel of interconnected stories profiles the people of a small Midwestern town during the early 1900s, revealing the potential consequences of human misunderstanding.