{"product_id":"0307270645","title":"Everybody's Fool","description":"\n\n\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 2016 Notable Book\u003cbr\u003e An immediate national best seller and instant classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eEmpire Falls\u003c\/i\u003e. Richard Russo returns to North Bath--\"a town where dishonesty abounds, everyone misapprehends everyone else and half the citizens are half-crazy\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e)--and the characters who made \u003ci\u003eNobody's Fool\u003c\/i\u003e a beloved choice of book clubs everywhere. \u003ci\u003eEverybody's Fool\u003c\/i\u003e is classic Russo, filled with humor, heart, hard times, and people you can't help but love, possibly because their various faults make them so human.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEverybody's Fool\u003c\/i\u003e picks up roughly a decade since we were last with Miss Beryl and Sully on New Year's Eve 1984. The irresistible Sully, who in the intervening years has come by some unexpected good fortune, is staring down a VA cardiologist's estimate that he has only a year or two left, and it's hard work trying to keep this news from the most important people in his life: Ruth, the married woman he carried on with for years . . . the ultra-hapless Rub Squeers, who worries that he and Sully aren't \u003ci\u003estill\u003c\/i\u003e best friends . . . Sully's son and grandson, for whom he was mostly an absentee figure (and now a regretful one). We also enjoy the company of Doug Raymer, the chief of police who's obsessing primarily over the identity of the man his wife might've been about to run off with, \u003ci\u003ebefore\u003c\/i\u003e dying in a freak accident . . . Bath's mayor, the former academic Gus Moynihan, whose wife problems are, if anything, even more pressing . . . and then there's Carl Roebuck, whose lifelong run of failing upward might now come to ruin. And finally, there's Charice Bond--a light at the end of the tunnel that is Chief Raymer's office--as well as her brother, Jerome, who might well be the train barreling into the station.\u003cbr\u003e A crowning achievement--\"like hopping on the last empty barstool surrounded by old friends\" (\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e)--from one of the greatest storytellers of our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLiterature \u0026amp; Fiction\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre Fiction\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eFamily Saga\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eFamily Life\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eBook details\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Russo, Richard\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e hardcover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e First Edition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Knopf\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 496\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780307270641\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Used - Poor","offer_id":49275159707838,"sku":"0307270645-6","price":3.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/81NjnfdXFWL.jpg?v=1791917356","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/0307270645","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}