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"First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand."
- Robert Cecil Day Lewis
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 549 pages
Publisher: Vintage Books
ISBN: 0679753338
Release Date: Jan 7, 1998
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 2 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
"Sixty-year-old Sully is 'nobody's fool,' except maybe his own. Out of work (undeclared-income work is what he does, when he can), down to his lastfew bucks, hampered by an arthritic broken knee, Sully is worried that he's started on a run of bad luck. And he has. The banker son of his octogenarian landlady wants him evicted; Sully's estranged son comes home for Thanksgiving only to have his wife split; Sully's own high-strung ex-wife seems headed for a nervous breakdown; and his longtime lover is blaming him for her daughter's winding up in the hospital with a busted jaw. But Sully's biggest problem is the memory of his own abusive father." (Libr J)
| | | | From The Publisher
In 1750, without warning or apparent reason, the mineral springs of the colonial resort town of Bath, New York, ran dry. A little more than two hundred years later, after numerous warnings and for too many reasons, Sully, the unluckiest man in this unlucky town, isn't doing too hot either. He's broke, out of a job, and the owner of a dead pickup truck. The good news? Sully has the dumbest man in North Bath as his devoted friend, a long-suffering, long-married woman who loves him, a forgiving eighty-year-old landlady who converses with her late husband, a spastic doberman as a watchdog, and the finest one-legged drunken Jewish lawyer this side of Albany. Now, if Sully could only banish his father's slyly grinning ghost and earn his own son's respect, he might just turn the whole damn thing around. Nobody's Fool is a funny, roguish novel that captures the imagination and provides a rich journey into a special world peopled by characters so real, so vital, we feel we've known them all our lives. As he did with his critically acclaimed Mohawk and The Risk Pool, Richard Russo brilliantly invents an unforgettable and luminously magical time and place. And, in doing so, Russo secures his place among America's great writers and most captivating storytellers.
| | | | Annotation
In his slyly funny and moving new novel, the author of The Risk Pool follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbeat, upstate New York town--and in the lives of the unluckiest of its citizens. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, and Jessica Tandy.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 2 Average Rating:
Should get six stars
-- Chuck, a print artist in Seattle, March 13, 2000
Also Recommended: Sweet Thursday, The Risk Pool, North of Hope, The Falling Boy, The Spectator Bird, Mail, Pigs in Heaven, The Foreign Student, A Fool's Progress, Corelli's Mandolin, Thank You For Smoking, The Shipping News, Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Great read=No Fooling 
-- Jan, a book lover, 45, from Miami, August 21, 2000
Also Recommended: Night of the Avenging Blowfish by John Welter Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
In a novel of familial reconciliation, an unlucky man must both come to terms with his father and reconcile with his son. "What makes Richard Russo so admirable as a novelist is that his natural grace as a storyteller is matched by his compassion for his characters"--John Irving
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