Nobody's Fool Commonwealth Writers' Prize (2009) Mr 137 and Mr 600

Mr 137 and Mr 600

under which members of different groups had long been held to distinct standards of familial and sexual morality

intelligent and reflective investigative thriller

Falling in love with him was the easiest thing I've ever done

the story of England's kings and queens is to a large degree that of England herself

Nobody's Fool Commonwealth Writers' Prize (2009) Mr 137 and Mr 600Richard Russo's slyly funny and moving novel follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbeat town in upstate New Yorkand in the life of one of its unluckiest citizens, Sully, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years. Divorced from his own wife and carrying on halfheartedly with another man's, saddled with a bum knee and friends who make enemies redundant, Sully now has one new problem to cope with: a long estranged son