Called back from college and set to work by family obligations-his mother ailing, his father a loose cannon-Miles never left home again. Miles Roby gazes over this ruined kingdom from the Empire Grill, an opportunity of his youth that has become the albatross of his daily and future life.
The working classes, meanwhile, continue to eke out whatever meager promise isnt already boarded up. One by one, its logging and textile enterprises have gone belly-up, and the once vast holdings of the Whiting clan (presided over by the last scions widow) now mostly amount to decrepit real estate. Richard Russo-from his first novel, Mohawk, to his most recent, Straight Man-has demonstrated a peerless affinity for the human tragicomedy, and with this stunning new novel he extends even further his claims on the small-town, blue-collar heart of the country.ĭexter County, Maine, and specifically the town of Empire Falls, has seen better days, and for decades only a succession from bad to worse.
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