Empire Falls - Winner of the Pulitzer Prize 2002
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| Verlag | Random House UK |
| Auflage | 2002 |
| Seiten | 496 |
| Format | 12,8 x 19,8 x 3,0 cm |
| B-Format | |
| Gewicht | 344 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 0099422271 |
| EAN | 9780099422273 |
| Bestell-Nr | 09942227EA |
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is a huge-hearted and wonderful novel by a master storyteller.
Empire Falls, Maine: once a thriving hub of industry, this small town nestles in a bend of the vast and winding Knox River, and has always been the empire of the wealthy Whiting family. Now the last Mrs Whiting presides like a black widow spider over its declining fortunes. She harbours a grudge against her employee Miles Groby, who runs the Whiting-owned Empire Grill, but hopes one day to own it himself. Miles, gentle and hopeless, has other problems: his wife has run off with his worst customer, he frets about his adored teenage daughter, and his drunken father sponges off everyone.
As the novel builds to a shocking climax, Russo constantly surprises with characters who will disarm you, a plot with as many twists and falls as the Knox River itself, and an ending that will make the hairs stand up on the back of your neck.
Rezension:
I loved Richard Russo's Pulitzer-winning Empire Falls, a moving, brilliantly imagined and intensely satisfying novel about the slow death of a small town: Russo's characters are as loveable and as exasperating as family Nick Hornby
