Books by Richard Russo

Straight Man (1998)
The author of Nobody's Fool chronicles a singularly eventful week in the life of William Henry Dever...

Elsewhere (2012)
Presents a personal account of the author's youth, his parents, and the 1950s upstate New York town ...

That Old Cape Magic (2009)
The lives of Jack and Joy Griffin always seem to come back to Cape Cod, where they honeymooned, as t...

The Best American Short Stories 2010 (2010)
The annual short fiction series showcases the work of such authors as Maggie Shipstead, James Lasdun...

Empire Falls (2002)
Miles Roby tries to hold his family together while working at the Empire Grill in the once-successfu...

Nobody's Fool (1993)
An unlucky man in a deadbeat town in upstate New York, Sully must overcome numerous obstacles--a bum...

Bridge of Sighs (2007)
After sixty years of living in the upstate New York town of Thomaston, Louis Charles and his wife of...

Mohawk (1994)
Tells the stories of the regulars at the Mohawk Grill and a secret from the past that leads to murde...

Interventions (2012)
Collects a novella and three short stories highlighting the human condition as seen through the live...

The Risk Pool (1994)
An adolescent growing up in a small, declining, working-class town is pulled back and forth between ...

The Whore's Child (2002)
A collection of short fiction explores the lives of a variety of characters, including a jaded Holly...