Richard Russo «Empire Falls» — Pulitzer Prize winner, «the last great American novel of the 20th century.»
Miles Roby has been cooking burgers at the Imperial Grill for twenty years, a job that cost him his college education and a fair amount of self-respect. Miles is a good guy, but there is one tragic flaw in his character — he is not capable of decisive action. Since his youth, trying to escape from the stuffy hometown, he circles around his own life. What keeps him here: maybe the smart, thin-skinned daughter Tik, who cannot survive in the local school without the support of her father; or Janine, Miles’ ex-wife at five minutes later, having an affair with the hopelessly narcissistic owner of a fitness club; or the domineering Francine Whiting, the owner of everything in the city? ..
In this novel, Richard Russo immerses the reader in the world of a small life, where oddities, intrigues, passions, funny and tragic events are seething. Empire Falls is a humane novel, full of humor, sympathy, sadness and joy. Richard Russo has practically not been translated into Russian, and this is a big miscalculation, because Russo is not only a great writer, favored by critics, crowned with awards and loved by readers, but his books should be especially close to the Russian reader.
For HBO, a series of the same name was filmed based on the novel with the participation of Ed Harris, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Newman, and others.
Press about the book:
«Deep, funny, tightly cut … perhaps Mr. Russo’s most mesmerizing book to date.»
The New York Times
«Pure pleasure … Rousseau is a master of fiction, devoid of pretentiousness, whose mature wisdom makes itself felt in the imperfection, good intentions, humor and sympathy inherent in real people who are told in these pages.»
The boston globe
«Rousseau is one of the best novelists of our time … As the pace of events accelerates, when the scattered threads of the narrative turn into taut strings, you frantically flip through the pages, or feel the urgent need to slow down and read.»
The New York Times Book Review
«The characters in Russo’s novel stand before us as if they were alive … A strong cocktail of drama, comedy and painful questions.»
The Washington Post
Attention! The phonogram contains obscene language.
© Richard Russo, 2001
© Elena Poletskaya, translation, 2018
© Andrey Bondarenko, design, 2018
© LLC «Publishing House Phantom Press», edition, 2018
The recording was made by the production center «Vimbo»
© & ℗ Vimbo Production Center, 2019
Producers: Vadim Bukh, Mikhail Litvakov
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