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Article: Empire Falls.(Audiobook Review)
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- March 1, 2002
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Richard Russo. 2001. Read by Ron McLarty. 15 tapes, 21 hrs. Recorded Books. #96751. 0-7887-8928-7. $120.00. Vinyl binder; plot notes. JSA *
Russo follows to some extent in the footsteps of authors such as Sinclair Lewis and Sherwood Anderson. The author of Risk Pool and Nobody's Fool (the latter became an acclaimed film starring Paul Newman) has grown steadily in reputation since his 1986 debut, Mohawk. And while Russo's newest creation, Empire Falls, revisits those same themes, its fictional canvas is so much broader and more richly complex. The eponymous Maine town of Empire Falls, with its wonderful double meaning, is but a shadow now of its glory days when a ...