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Empire falls, Richard Russo

Label
Empire falls, Richard Russo
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Empire falls
Oclc number
49793271
Responsibility statement
Richard Russo
Series statement
Book club kit
resource.studyProgramName
Accelerated Reader, Grades 9-12, 7.4, 34, SD, Quiz 105691, English fiction.
Summary
Miles Roby has been slinging burgers at the Empire Grill for 20 years, a job that cost him his college education and much of his self-respect. What keeps him there? It could be his bright, sensitive daughter Tick, who needs all his help surviving the local high school. Or maybe it's Janine, Miles' soon-to-be ex-wife, who's taken up with a noxiously vain health-club proprietor. Or perhaps it's the imperious Francine Whiting, who owns everything in town-and seems to believe that "everything" includes Miles himself. In Empire Falls Richard Russo delves deep into the blue-collar heart of America ..
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