{"product_id":"everybodys-fool-a-novel-9780739376065","title":"Everybody's Fool: A novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA New York Times 2016 Notable Book  An immediate national best seller and instant classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls. Richard Russo returns to North Batha town where dishonesty abounds  everyone misapprehends everyone else and half the citizens are half-crazy (The New York Times)and the characters who made Nobodys Fool a beloved choice of book clubs everywhere. Everybodys Fool is classic Russo  filled with humor  heart  hard times  and people you cant help but love  possibly because their various faults make them so human.  Everybodys Fool picks up roughly a decade since we were last with Miss Beryl and Sully on New Years Eve 1984. The irresistible Sully  who in the intervening years has come by some unexpected good fortune  is staring down a VA cardiologists estimate that he has only a year or two left  and its hard work trying to keep this news from the most important people in his life: Ruth  the married woman he carried on with for years . . . the ultra-hapless Rub Squeers  who worries that he and Sully arent still best friends . . . Sullys son and grandson  for whom he was mostly an absentee figure (and now a regretful one). We also enjoy the company of Doug Raymer  the chief of police whos obsessing primarily over the identity of the man his wife mightve been about to run off with  before dying in a freak accident . . . Baths mayor  the former academic Gus Moynihan  whose wife problems are  if anything  even more pressing . . . and then theres Carl Roebuck  whose lifelong run of failing upward might now come to ruin. And finally  theres Charice Bonda light at the end of the tunnel that is Chief Raymers officeas well as her brother  Jerome  who might well be the train barreling into the station.  A crowning achievementlike hopping on the last empty barstool surrounded by old friends (Entertainment Weekly)from one of the greatest storytellers of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45655662821429,"sku":"ByrdShop_0739376063","price":102.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780739376065.jpg?v=1781937796","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/everybodys-fool-a-novel-9780739376065","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}