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Title:
Empire falls
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 ...
General Note:
Previously published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.
Edition:
1st Vintage Contemporaries ed.
Physical Description:
483 p. ; 21 cm.
Geographic Term:
Publisher:
Vintage Books,
Publication Date:
2002

2001
ISBN:
9780375726408

9780307275134
Publication Information:
New York : Vintage Books, 2002.
Award Note:
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2002
Call Number:
RUSSO
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