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Title	:	Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)
Author	:	Richard Russo
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 549 pages
Published	:	April 12th 1994 by Vintage (first published May 25th 1993)
Categories	:	Fiction. Humor. Literary Fiction. Contemporary. Literature

Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)

Richard Russo

Paperback | Pages: 549 pages

Rating: 4.11 | 24829 Users | 1887 Reviews

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Richard Russo's slyly funny and moving novel follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbeat town in upstate New York—and in the life of one of its unluckiest citizens, Sully, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years.

Divorced from his own wife and carrying on halfheartedly with another man's, saddled with a bum knee and friends who make enemies redundant, Sully now has one new problem to cope with: a long-estranged son who is in imminent danger of following in his father's footsteps. With its sly and uproarious humor and a heart that embraces humanity's follies as well as its triumphs, Nobody's Fool is storytelling at its most generous.

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Original Title:	Nobody's Fool
ISBN:	0679753338 (ISBN13: 9780679753339)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Sully #1
Setting:	Upstate New York(United States) Bath, New York(United States)

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Richard Russo is an extraordinary storyteller. I loved Nobody's Fool just a shade less than Empire Falls, although I liked Sully more than Miles. I think Empire Falls was a little more subtle, but Nobody's Fool still has some amazing writing. I enjoyed North Bath (and its nemesis Schuyler Springs, NY) nearly as much as Empire Falls, ME. There were a lot of similarities between the two books, the rundown New England towns, and the characters - what holds everything together is Russo's incredible

Another good Russo study of a dying town in the N.E. corner of America and the cranky, yet more or less likable, people who live there. Even though the book was written 20 years ago, it feels timeless. Don't we all know a Sully--a 60 year old wise-cracking guy with a bad knee who gets involved in everything without taking actual responsibility? And his retired school teacher/landlady whose son has dollar signs in his eyes dreaming of the day he can sell her house for a nice profit? Middle-class

I've long said that I don't do well with "hilarious" novels, or the kind that states somewhere on a blurb on the cover of the book that it's the "funniest thing ever". I feel these books are trying to make me laugh and that's exhausting. "Whoops, was I supposed to laugh at that? Let me go back and see if it's funny... Nope, still barely made me crack a smiler." Books that feature characters that were written with the sole purpose of getting laughs, mean kind of laughs, at a character's expense.

Loved it. I just felt I was right there in the 1980s in North Bath, upstate New York, with Sully and all the other characters, perhaps sitting on a stool having a drink in the only bar in town The Horse, watching the goings-on, taking it all in and having a chuckle. Richard Russo has created a memorable character in Sully, a man full of wit, at times quite caustic, basically someone with no ambition and goals but who manages to charm many people he comes in contact with and somehow Sully gets

I don't know exactly why I love Richard Russo so much (not true: I like him because his characters are granted senses of humor in almost direct proportion to their integrity), but while reading this I had that gluttonous "I love this book and can't stop reading it but wish I could keep reading it forever and that there were tons more RR novels that I could read when I'm through" feeling.Anyway, we should all live in a world where the definition of a villain is someone with no sense of humor. If

Im fascinated by the idea of small town America. Ive never experienced it in person, just read about it in books or seen it depicted in films and television programmes. The concept seems just so different to any English town I can think of, all of which seem too close to their nearly identical neighbour to offer up anything but another homogeneous collection of chain stores, Costa Coffee shops and charity outlets. Ok, Im probably being a little harsh on small towns in my own country here, or

I listened to Nobody's Fool while driving a rented moving van across country and regretted only that I was by myself and had no one else to laugh with, cry with, commiserate with, or just plain hug when it ended. I've read a few of Richard Russo's books and I don't understand why he doesn't have a statue on the National Mall. Must be only because he is still alive. Of all his books, Nobody's Fool is, by far, my favorite. And Sully, the main character, is, to my mind, an American hero. A beat up