Nobody's Fool
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Nobody's Fool
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Narrated by:
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Ron McLarty
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By:
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Richard Russo
About this listen
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls, this slyly funny, moving novel about a blue-collar town in upstate New York—and about Sully, one of its unluckiest citizens, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years—is a classic American story.
"Remarkable.... A revelation of the human heart." —The Washington Post
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.
Look for Everybody’s Fool, available now, and Somebody’s Fool, coming soon.
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Critic reviews
"...confident, assured novel sweeps the reader up in the daily life of its characters." ( San Francisco Chronicle)
"A delight." ( Library Journal)
Brilliant
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A wonderful, charming, book..
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The writing is so deftly simple but wise - it is a joy to read and every few lines you come across a wry observation or profound reflection. You get to know a large cast of small town characters and although they are all flawed and quirky, you get to like them all and care about what happens to them. It is deeply compassionate and brilliantly funny. I found myself exploding with uncontrollable belly-laughs on a number of occasions. I also felt quite tearful at times. It's a huge book - over 24 hours long in audio format. My only regret is that it wasn't twice as long. Now I don't know what to do with myself because I am afraid that the next few books I read will inevitably be disappointing. My only antidote to this may be to read another Russo book!!
A Great American Novel
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Would you consider the audio edition of Nobody's Fool to be better than the print version?
I have not read the printed versionWho was your favorite character and why?
Richard Russo skilfully made me really care for several of his characters especially Sully and Mrs Beryl, but equally Peter, Ruth, Carl and even Rub!Which scene did you most enjoy?
Too many to pick out just one!Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Again there were several. There is an undercurrent of care and concern throughout the book.Excellent! A funny and moving novel.
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What made the experience of listening to Nobody's Fool the most enjoyable?
What a fascinating cast of characters. It perfectly captured ( what I imagine is) American small town life.Who was your favorite character and why?
Sully is now my literary hero. Flawed, damaged, a bully yet so humane.Which character – as performed by Ron McLarty – was your favourite?
Again SullyIf you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
Well it has so no use speculating.Any additional comments?
If you are into Audible get this title. It's long but so worthwhile.Absolutely brilliant!
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Without flaw
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A wonderful story beautifully written
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I've not read any of Richard Russo's books before, but I was blown away by his ability to create entirely sympathetic characters that I soon found myself caring about deeply. The dialogue sparkles, and I can't imagine a better reader for this particular title than Ron McLarty (whom I'd also not encountered before).
I've listened to a lot of books from Audible over the last few years, but this (along with Ender's Game) is right up there with the best I've ever heard. I've already downloaded 2 more of Richard Russo's books, and I hope they'll provide more of the same.
When this recording ended I felt almost bereaved, and that's a feeling I don't often experience at the end of a book these days. Richard Russo is a master of transforming the imagined minutiae of small-town life into something that takes you by the heart and simply doesn't let go. If you enjoy taking a peep into how other people live then rush over to the downloads page and grab it right now.
Wonderful, masterful and wholly convincing
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great story, great characters, great narration.
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What about Ron McLarty’s performance did you like?
Absolutely excellent reading. The dialogue is perfect. His ability to put multidimensional expression into a single utterance such as "ok" is a pleasure to witness.Any additional comments?
If you don't know Richard Russo novels you have a treat ahead of you. This is my fourth and, yet again, despite its length, I didn't want it to finish. Sully, the 60-year old hero in this one, is not only a hopeless loser, as are most of Russo's characters, but - I won't spoil it by listing his character flaws but let's say he is not someone most of us would admire in real life. Yet Russo writes with such wit and humanity, I found myself desperately fond of old Sully and all the other no-hopers who do very little but get drunk, smoke, argue and insult each other. That is surely one of the highest achievements of a novel - to take us somewhere we wouldn't want to go and show us the good in it.The book covers 3 generations with the majority of the attention given to the older end. It is refreshing to see the focus and sympathy given to the unattractive 80 year old Mrs Peoples, and to the younger grandparents whose sex lives Russo does not shrink from describing.
Warning if you don't like 4 letter words and crude references to parts of the anatomy, steer well clear of this.
One final comment: if you like banter and bar talk, I can't think of anyone who gets it so exactly right as Russo. (If you know of anyone else who can match it please let me know).
Sheer delight
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