Review: Richard Russo, "Somebody's Fool"
Russo's third-in-a-series novel merges domestic drama and slow-burn mystery.
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Russo's third-in-a-series novel merges domestic drama and slow-burn mystery.
One of the great knuckleheads in recent American fiction lies dead early in Richard Russo's new novel. Will Donald "Sully" Sullivan's hardscrabble town ever be the same? Readers met the incurably sarcastic, erratically employed, occasionally sober Sully in Russo's great 1993 comic novel "Nobody's
The author brings his newest "Fool" novel to the Brattle on Aug. 7, transporting readers to a small town only he could create for the third time.
“Somebody’s Fool” by Richard Russo
Ten years after the death of the magnetic Donald “Sully” Sullivan, the town of North Bath is going through a major transition as it is annexed by its much wealthier neighbor, Schuyler Springs. Peter, Sully’s son, is still grappling with his father’s tremendous legacy as well as his relationship to his own son, Thomas, wondering if he has been all that different a father than Sully was to him. Meanwhile, the towns’ newly consolidated police department falls into the hands of Charice Bond, after the resignation of Doug Raymer, the former North Bath police chief and Charice’s ex-lover...