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Literary Fiction · 2011 · PG-13

Nobody's Fool

by Richard Russo

Sully Sullivan, sixty-year-old handyman and lovable ne'er-do-well, navigates another winter in a small, dying upstate New York town.

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls, this slyly funny, moving novel about a blue-collar town in upstate New York—and about Sully, one of its unluckiest citizens, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years—is a classic American story. "Remarkable.... A revelation of the human heart." —The Washington Post 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 fat

For14+GenreLiterary FictionLength549 pagesRead time~16 hours

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Violence

Barely any

Minimal violence

Language

Some

Moderate language in the adult Russo literary tradition

Sexual Content

Barely any

Brief adult references

Substance Use

Some

Significant alcohol use in the working-class setting

Emotional Intensity

Barely any

Themes of the comedy and dignity of ordinary failure

What this book is about

Richard Russo's comic masterpiece about a lovable failure in a dying town. Adult language and adult references throughout in Russo's warm literary style. Appropriate for adult literary fiction readers.

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Adult language

Alcohol use

Small-town adult fiction

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