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Genre/Form: | Psychological fiction Fiction |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Russo |
ISBN: | 9780375726408 0375726403 9780307275134 0307275132 9780679432470 0679432477 |
OCLC Number: | 1016078216 |
Notes: | Previously published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. Kit includes 14 books and 1 laminated discussion guide in plastic container. |
Awards: | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2002. |
Description: | 483 pages ; 21 cm. Kit: 14 books + laminated discussion guide : 10 1/2 x 14 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. ; in container. |
Series Title: | Book discussion group kit. |
Responsibility: | Richard Russo. |
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Abstract:
Miles Roby has been slinging burgers at the Empire Grill for 20 years, a job that cost him his college education and much of his self-respect. What keeps him there? It could be his bright, sensitive daughter Tick, who needs all his help surviving the local high school. Or maybe it's Janine, Miles' soon-to-be ex-wife, who's taken up with a noxiously vain health-club proprietor. Or perhaps it's the imperious Francine Whiting, who owns everything in town-and seems to believe that "everything" includes Miles himself. In Empire Falls Richard Russo delves deep into the blue-collar heart of America ...

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