![]() ![]() In Empire Falls Richard Russo delves deep into the blue-collar heart of America in a work that overflows with hilarity, heartache, and grace. ![]() Or perhaps it’s the imperious Francine Whiting, who owns everything in town–and seems to believe that “everything” includes Miles himself. Or maybe it’s Janine, Miles’ soon-to-be ex-wife, who’s taken up with a noxiously vain health-club proprietor. It is the basis for the 2005 HBO teleplay for which Russo wrote the script. What keeps him there? It could be his bright, sensitive daughter Tick, who needs all his help surviving the local high school. This novel of small town life in Maine won the 2002 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. Once Empire Falls was a Company Town that was more or less completely owned by the Whiting family, who also owned the mill and the shirt factory. It is set in the small town of Empire Falls, Maine. Welcome to Empire Falls, a blue-collar town full of abandoned mills whose citizens surround themselves with the comforts and feuds provided by lifelong friends and neighbors and who find humor and hope in the most unlikely places, in this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Richard Russo. Empire Falls is a 2001 novel by Richard Russo. A stirring mix of poignancy, drama and comedy.” -The Washington Post ![]() “Russo writes with a warm, vibrant humanity…. ![]()
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