# Empire Falls

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- Book: [Empire Falls](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-russo/empire-falls) ([Empire Falls.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-russo/empire-falls.md))
- Authors: [Richard Russo](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-russo)
- Publisher: allen_unwin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-19-5253-558-1
- Published: 2017-01-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 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 in a work that overflows with hilarity, heartache, and grace.