Richard Russo

Sully is staring down a VA cardiologist's estimate that he has only a year or two left, and it's hard work trying to keep this news from the most important people in his life....

Dexter County, Maine, and specifically the town of Empire Falls, has seen better days, and for decades, in fact, only a succession from bad to worse....

Empire Falls, eine Kleinstadt in Maine: Seit über zwanzig Jahren arbeitet Miles Roby im örtlichen Diner. Hier versammelt sich die ganze Stadt...

In this slyly funny and moving novel, Richard Russo follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbeat, upstate New York town, and in the lives of the unluckiest of its citizens.

Like his late, beloved father, Louis Charles ("Lucy") Lynch is an optimist, though he's had plenty of reasons not to be....

Eigentlich sollte das Memorial-Day-Wochende für alle Bewohner von North Bath eine Zeit der Ruhe und Besinnung sein. Aber in diesem Jahr ist es...

In these nine essays, Richard Russo provides insight into his life as a writer, teacher, friend, and reader. From a commencement speech he gave at Colby College, to the story of how an oddly placed toilet made him reevaluate the purpose of humor....

An unforgettable tale of life, love and passion in a decaying mill town in upstate New York. Mohawk, New York, is one of those small towns that lie almost entirely on the wrong side of the tracks....

In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump inauguration and the Women's March, this provocative, unprecedented anthology features original short stories....

Russo's characters in these four expansive stories bear little similarity to the blue-collar citizens we're familiar with from many of his novels....