A much-needed new edition of Richard Russo's warm-hearted story about a down-and-out loser who gets the chance to change his luck. Russo's sharp-witted and moving novel follows the unexpected workings of grace in a rundown town in New York State—and in the life of one of its unluckiest citizens, Sully, who has been triumphantly doing the wrong thing for fifty years. Divorced from his own wife and half-heartedly involved with another man's wife, plagued by a damaged knee and friends who make enemies unnecessary, Sully now has a new problem to face: a long-estranged son who is in immediate danger of following in his father's footsteps. With his keen and uproarious humor and a heart that embraces both the follies and triumphs of humanity, Nobody's Fool is storytelling in its most generous form. Richard Russo is the author of eight novels, two collections of stories, and On Helwig Street, a memoir. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for Empire Falls, which, like Nobody's Fool, was adapted into an award-winning HBO miniseries. He lives in Maine.