Nobody's Fool [Paperback]

This slyly funny, moving novel about a blue-collar town in upstate New York—and in the life of Sully, of one of its unluckiest citizens, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years—is a classic American story.

Divorced from his own wife and carrying on halfheartedly with another man's, saddled with a bum knee and friends who make enemies redundant, Sully now has one new problem to cope with: a long-estranged son who is in imminent danger of following in his father's footsteps. With its uproarious humor and a heart that embraces humanity's follies as well as its triumphs,Nobody's Fool, from Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Richard Russo, is storytelling at its most generous.
 
Nobody’s Foolwas made into a movie starring Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Jessica Tandy, and Melody Griffith. Remarkable....A revelation of the human heart. --The Washington Post

Russo is a master craftsman....Nobody's Foolis a big, rambunctious novel with endless riffs and unstoppable human hopefulness. -- The Boston Globe

Simple as family love, yet nearly as complicated, Richard Russo's confident, assured novel sweeps the reader up in the daily life of its characters. --San Francisco ChronicleRichard Russo is the author of eight novels; two collections of stories; andElsewhere,a memoir. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize forEmpire Falls,which likeNobody’s Foolwas adapted to film, in a multiple-award-winning HBO miniseries.The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group's reading of Richard Russo'sNobody's Fool. We hope that they will provide you with different ways of looking at--and talking about--a novel whose size, opulence of character and description, broad social canvas, and sheer narrative zest suggest the books of Dickens, John Irving, and Anne Tyler. Amid the whip-crack repartee and wló>