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Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing Best Book (nominee)
NATIONAL BESTSELLER The Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, the Rust Belt town first brought to unforgettable life in Nobodys Fool. "Irresistible.... Very funny.... A joy." The New York Times
Now, ten years later, Doug Raymer has become the chief of police and is tormented by the improbable death of his wifenot to mention his suspicion that he was a failure of a husband. Meanwhile, the irrepressible Sully has come into a small fortune, but is suddenly faced with a VA cardiologists estimate that he only has a year or two left to live.
As Sully frantically works to keep the bad news from the important people in his life, we are reunited with his son and grandson . . . with Ruth, the married woman with whom he carried on for years . . . and with the hapless Rub Squeers, who worries that he and Sully arent still best friends. Filled with humor, heart, and hard-luck characters you cant help but love, Everybodys Fool is a crowning achievement from one of the great storytellers of our time.
Look for Nobody's Fool, available now, and Somebodys Fool, coming soon.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Now, ten years later, Doug Raymer has become the chief of police and is tormented by the improbable death of his wifenot to mention his suspicion that he was a failure of a husband. Meanwhile, the irrepressible Sully has come into a small fortune, but is suddenly faced with a VA cardiologists estimate that he only has a year or two left to live.
As Sully frantically works to keep the bad news from the important people in his life, we are reunited with his son and grandson . . . with Ruth, the married woman with whom he carried on for years . . . and with the hapless Rub Squeers, who worries that he and Sully arent still best friends. Filled with humor, heart, and hard-luck characters you cant help but love, Everybodys Fool is a crowning achievement from one of the great storytellers of our time.
Look for Nobody's Fool, available now, and Somebodys Fool, coming soon.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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