Empire Falls
by:
Richard Russo (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780786236510 (0786236515)
Publish date: December 1st 2001
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Pages no: 902
Edition language: English
Posted as part of the United States of Books blogging project -- check out my blog for a longer, more rambly and personal version of this post It is just daunting to try to talk about this book -- especially in something that'd make a decent-length blog post and not a full-fledged dissertation. E...
When it comes to story and characters, Empire Falls is a fine read. The setting and the language are good. I was certainly enveloped in the town of Empire Falls and the characters it was peopled with. Also, I liked the narrative as it rotated through the various perspectives. What I did not like abo...
This started with a slog of a prologue (done completely in hard-to-read italics) setting up the cliche of the EVIL rich person running and ruining a small town--Empire Falls, Maine. Past that though the novel was mostly focused and seen through the point of view of the sympathetic, though passive,...
I grew up in a small town where I knew the majority of its residents or if not the faces were familiar. I was known mostly by association and not my name. A granddaughter of a lifelong member and still current resident (at 94 years old) of the same small town. Suffice it to say, because of this, I w...
loved it! full of heart and compassion for the human spirit. a new addition to one of my most favorite books.
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