NOBODY'S FOOL

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.

Made into a movie with the same title by Robert Benton in 1994, starring Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Bruce Willis, and Melanie Griffith.

EIN GRUNDZUFRIEDENER MANN
Deutsch von Barbara Foerst
[PB Dumont 06/17]
STRASSE DER NARREN
[TB: Bastei Luebbe, 1995; RR]