Empire Falls

Richard Russo · 2001 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

Miles Roby has run the Empire Grill for twenty years in a decaying Maine mill town whose fortunes still depend on the widow who owns most of it. Family obligations and the town's history close in on him; a novel of small-town working life in the American realist line.

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