Empire falls

Russo, Richard 1949- (Author).

Summary: 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 ...

Item details

ISBN: 0375726403 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780375726408 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0307275132
ISBN: 9780307275134
ISBN: 0679432477
ISBN: 9780679432470
Physical Description: print
regular print
483 pages ; 21 cm
Edition: 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed.
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 2002.

Contents / Notes

General Note:	Previously published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.
Awards Note:	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2002.

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