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Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
36.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
A major new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls, this story of parents and children, of family both benevolent and malevolent, of small-town community and its hidden toxic effects, has all the glorious heart we have come to expect from a Russo novel but with a tough new edge and a ...Show more
Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
26.99 NZD
28.99 (6% off)
Category: Fiction
Two boys grow up in Thomaston, upstate New York. Louis Charles Lynch, aka Lucy, marries his childhood sweetheart and settles down to run a small empire of convenience stores. He's a good man, but he isn't always as reliable as he seems, and secretly longs for what he can't have...His best friend Bobby e ...Show more
Chances Are by Richard Russo
32.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo - in his first stand-alone novel in a decade - comes a new revelation: a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship.
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
26.99 NZD
28.99 (6% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
History and humanity flow through Empire Falls, Maine, like the strange flotsam washed up at the bend of the vast, slow-moving Knox River. The Whiting family, owners of the mills and the shirt factory, have sold out to a multinational. The Whiting men have invariably married women who make their lives a ...Show more
Everybody's Fool by Richard Russo
36.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Richard Russo's new novel takes place in the decaying American town of North Bath over the course of a very busy weekend, ten years after the events of Nobody's Fool. Donald 'Sully' Sullivan is trying to ignore his cardiologist's estimate that he has only a year or two left. Ruth, his long-time lover, i ...Show more
Mohawk by Richard Russo
27.99 NZD
32.99 (15% off)
Category: Fiction
Mohawk, New York, is one of those small towns that lie almost entirely on the wrong side of the tracks. Its citizens, too, have fallen on hard times. Dallas Younger, a star athlete in high school, now drifts from tavern to poker game, losing money. His ex-wife, Anne, is stuck in a losing battle with her ...Show more
Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo
26.99 NZD
32.99 (18% off)
Category: Fiction
In the small town of North Bath, it is Thanksgiving and Sully, Miss Beryl's ne'er-do-well lodger, has problems; his knee is acting up, his ex-wife is finally cracking up, his mistress is giving him the cold shoulder and, though well on in life, he still hasn't come to terms with the memory of his violen ...Show more
Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo
22.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Richard Russo's slyly funny and moving novel follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbeat town in upstate New York - and in the life of one of its unluckiest citizens, Sully, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years...Divorced from his own wife and carrying on halfheart ...Show more
Straight Man by Richard Russo
26.99 NZD
29.99 (10% off)
Category: General Fiction
At age fifty, Professor William Henry Devereaux, Jr, has more than a mid-life crisis to deal with. As a child, his parents found him merely exasperating. As an adult, and interim chair of the English Department, he is careening out of control. Half in love with three women, unable to understand his daug ...Show more
That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo
39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Thirty years ago and full of hope, on their Cape Cod honeymoon, Jack and Joy Griffin drafted the Great Truro Accord, a plan for their future that's now thirty years old and has largely come true. At the time they were living in Los Angeles, where Griffin wrote scripts that were already losing his intere ...Show more
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