Everybody's Fool
The New York Times – Janet Maslin …delightful…North Bath, N.Y., a fictitious upstate town [is]…a town where dishonesty abounds, everyone misapprehends everyone else and half the citizens are half-crazy. It's a great place for a reader to visit, and it seems to be Mr. Russo's spiritual home…Both Bath and Everybody's Fool are funny—very funny…Mr. Russo's […]
That Old Cape Magic
The New York Times – Roxana Robinson: Russo has written six previous novels?and we've come to expect certain things: a complicated skein of plotlines, deep connection to place, and affection for the large cast of characters who blunder and struggle through his pages. That Old Cape Magic does not disappoint?Family, family, family is the subject […]
Empire Falls
Nobody's Fool
Somebody’s Fool
Bridge of Sighs
Library Journal Review: With the same humor and pathos that turned Empire Falls and Straight Man into best sellers, Russo's latest tale unravels the tangled skein of love, regret, hope, and longing that wraps itself around friends and family in a small upstate New York town. Russo's multigenerational tale follows the fortunes of two families, […]