Everybody's fool: Nobody's fool bk. 2

✍ Scribed by Richard Russo

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group; Alfred A. Knopf
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 333 KB
• Series: Nobody's fool 2
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York (State), New York (State)--Upstate New York., Upstate New York (N.Y.
• ISBN: 0451493842

✦ Synopsis

Richard Russo, at the very top of his game, now returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and the characters who made Nobody's Fool(1993)__ a "confident, assured novel [that] sweeps the reader up," according to the San Francisco Chronicle back then . "Simple as family love, yet nearly as complicated." Or, as The Boston Globe put it, "a big, rambunctious novel with endless riffs and unstoppable human hopefulness."_
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The irresistible Sully, who in the intervening years has come by some unexpected good fortune, 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: Ruth, the married woman he carried on with for years . . . the ultra-hapless Rub Squeers, who worries that he and Sully aren't still best friends . . . Sully's son and grandson, for whom he was mostly an absentee figure (and now a regretful one)....

✦ Subjects

New York (State) -- Upstate New York