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  <title><![CDATA[Nobody's Fool]]></title>
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  <default_description>In his slyly funny and moving new novel, the author of The Risk Pool follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbeat, upstate New York town--and in the lives of the unluckiest of its citizens. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, and Jessica Tandy. Author reading tour.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1993</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Nobody's Fool</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Richard Russo]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I know, I know.  You've probably read Empire Falls already.  But why not read this Russo classic from 1994?  Russo perfectly captures the desolation of small towns that have always longed to be something more than they are.  Towns that long for old days.  You know, those times when manufacturing job...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2794846">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed reading _Nobody's Fool_. As I was reading it, I couldn't help but picture Jack Nicholson playing the part of Sully. In fact, to me, the rascally Sully *was* Jack Nicholson. This idea popped into my mind, spontaneously and unbidden. In fact, I expected everyone who read the book to have the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25262972">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Nov 22 10:52:35 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Full of heart and humour.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book, along with russo's 'empire falls, is an unarguable classic of american literature...keepers of the canon take note...<br/><br/>it always amazes me when a writer can contain his entire thematic program for a novel in a single image...<br/>chabon did it in 'wonder boys' with a tuba and r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34851551">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 &quot;I love this book and can't stop reading it but wish I could keep reading ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1190542">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A few chapters into this book, I realized with joy that I had found a new author whose works I would enjoy tremendously.  &quot;Please let this not be his only book,&quot; I thought, and I was not disappointed.<br/><br/>Once again, I find that it is the characters, more than plot or writing style,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1267697">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[My second Russo book and it was even better than the Straight Man.  I loved this book and really didn't want it to end.  I am still in withdrawal, missing following the life of the main character, Sully, a 60 year old man trying to make ends meet in a very small town in northern New England.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73602670">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent book. Interestingly enough, most of the characters are very foolish in this book. As I was reading, I kept thinking - What fools. Similar to Empire Falls, the first hundred pages or so seem to be pointless. You keep thinking to yourself, where are we going with this? Unfortunately, by the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72822601">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Here's a book recommended to me because it reminded someone of my own book, in progress. Russo's book is a great read, a character-driven story of 60-year-old handyman/carpenter Sully, a stubborn guy who has been wanting to do things his own way his entire life. Russo takes us to a small town in ups...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68548355">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Richard Russo's books.  I just let the book's world take over.  The characters are wonderful-- lovable and frustrating, like old friends by the time you finish the book.  That said, he needs an editor, an honest, trusted helper who is willing to cut through the crap and tell him some of this ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44288111">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39870614">
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    <body><![CDATA[What a charming, insightful story, and characters I've known in my life in upstate New York.  In a real sense, the community itself is one of the characters, and that's the truth of living in places like this.<br/><br/>I was so glad that Paul Newman chose to do the movie version, because I knew he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39870614">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story line has been described elsewhere, I won't duplicate.  Richard Russo takes time and effort to paint detailed portraits of the main characters (Sully, Miss Beryl, Rub).  Even the secondary characters (Wirf, Ruth, Clive Jr.) are fleshed out so that they are memorable and more importantly, hu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35273178">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Oct 03 12:50:30 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 03 12:58:37 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just re-read this marvelous book by Richard Russo.  His depiction of small town life is astonishing.  Donald Sullivan (Sully) is an aging construction worker with a bum knee.  He rents a room from his former high school teacher, an arrangement which allows her to mantain her own establishment and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34454031">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38699378">
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up in the middle of October because I wanted a book that focused more on characters than plot, and I know that Russo approaches his works that way.<br/><br/>This was a great book to read as fall set in and the leaves first changed colors and then fell off the trees completely.  Many ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38699378">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="68493925">
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Aug 25 10:36:37 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazing book that will live with me for quite sometime.  Beautifully crafted book.  Characters developed well through brilliant sparse dialogue delivered at a good clip.  Small town life and relationships are spot on.  An amazing look at relationships, love, forgiveness, the compromises we make and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68493925">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A friend gave this book to me as a present. It served as the beginning of my devotion to Richard Russo's novels. Sully, the central character, was an old man who has many shortcomings. Yet, the genial Richard Russo makes readers perceive the irony of Sully's life as somthing amusing (and somehow rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2730468">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Richard Russo is my new favorite author!  I don't know how I had missed him all these years, I like him better than Nelson DeMille who I think he is similar to as far as writing from a middle aged man's point of view.  Anyway, Russo is so great with his characters, all of them are fully fleshed and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70296448">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A dying town, down on their luck characters. In some ways I think Russo took his novel Risk Pool and improved it to produce this one. As unanimously held, this is a character play, no highly refined plot. Sully is the bum-kneed jack of few trades glue to the story. And Rub Squeers, as his slow, swee...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54025539">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[i feel like richard russo's books usually dont span too much time. sure there's a lot of reminiscing about the past, but the thick of the action takes place within a contained amount of weeks, usually when revelation though not necessarily change occurs. but you emerge from his books feeling as if y...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37948557">more...</a>]]></body>
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