Richard Russo, "Chances Are"

Richard Russo discusses his novel , "Chances Are", at Politics and Prose.

The author of novels including Nobody’s Fool, Straight Man, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Empire Falls, Russo is our great chronicler of small-town America. His new book, infused with his signature humor and compassion, is the story of three men, friends since college. Now in their sixties, Lincoln, a commercial real estate broker; Teddy, a small-press publisher; and Mickey, a musician past his prime, get together in Martha’s Vineyard to relive old times. As they reminisce, spill secrets, and affirm their friendship, they also probe a still mysterious incident from a Memorial Day over forty years before.

Richard Russo is the author of eight novels, most recently Everybody’s Fool and That Old Cape Magic; two collections of stories; and the memoir Elsewhere. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which like Nobody’s Fool was adapted to film, in a multiple-award-winning HBO miniseries; in 2016 he was given the Indie Champion Award by the American Booksellers Association; and in 2017 he received France’s Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine. He lives in Port­land, Maine.

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