He satisfies every expectation without lapsing into predictability, and the last section of the book explodes with surprises. Russo's command of his story is unerring. Richard Russo can write like Edith Wharton leavened with a touch of David Lodge * Economist * He is, in all the best senses of the word, a natural * Sunday Times * Russo makes an enormous job of story-telling look effortless. In the Empire Grill he has created a place so involving that not only can you see and smell it, but you start to feel a bit left out of the gin rummy. He is also the author of Mohawk, The Risk Pool, Nobody s Fool, Straight Man. Like Anne Tyler, Russo is interested in how people rub along in kindness and responsibility in cutting slack without being asked. Richard Russo won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for his fifth novel, Empire Falls. His natural grace as a storyteller is matched by his compassion for his characters - John Irving 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
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |