Empire Falls
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Empire Falls is a 2001 novel by Richard Russo, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Miles Roby runs a diner in a fading Maine mill town owned by the wealthy Whiting family. Divorced and devoted to his teenage daughter, he lives in a community haunted by its past and secrets that slowly come to light.
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- Stephen King: “On Writing: 10th Anniversary Edition (Scribner, 2010), per afterword list in On Writing (10th anniv. ed.)”