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Empire Falls

Richard Russo

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Empire Falls won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Miles Roby has been slinging burgers at the Empire Grill for 20 years, a job that cost him his college education and much of his self-respect. What keeps him there? It could be his bright, sensitive daughter Tick, who needs all his help surviving the local high school. Or maybe it's Janine, Miles' soon-to-be ex-wife, who's taken up with a noxiously vain health-club proprietor. Or perhaps it's the imperious Francine Whiting, who owns everything in town - and seems to believe that 'everything' includes Miles himself. In Empire Falls Richard Russo delves deep into the blue-collar heart of America in a work that overflows with hilarity, heartache, and grace.

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Publisher
Atlantic Books
Year
2017
ISBN-13
9781952535581
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Small-town lifeFamily relationshipsClass and social hierarchyComing of agePersonal identity and self-worth

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