Nobody's Fool

Nobody's FoolThis slyly funny, moving novel about a blue collar town in upstate New York and in the life of Sully, of one of its unluckiest citizens, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years is a classic American story. 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

This slyly funny, moving novel about a blue-collar town in upstate New York--and in the life of Sully, of one of its unluckiest citizens, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years--is a classic American story.

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 uproarious humor and a heart that embraces humanity's follies as well as its triumphs, Nobody's Fool, from Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Richard Russo, is storytelling at its most generous.

Nobody's Fool was made into a movie starring Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Jessica Tandy, and Melody Griffith.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04/12/1994
ISBN: 9780679753339
Pages: 560
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.20w x 0.93d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 04/11/1994