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
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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