6/5/2023 0 Comments Empire falls book review![]() ![]() ![]() Whiting, prodigal son of the family whose shirt factory dominates the central Maine mill town that gives the novel its The man of good fortune, his unhappy courtship and thwarted ambitions chronicled in a prologue, his grim end in an epilogue, is C. To be summed up in an aphorism, but it is nonetheless grounded in the New England bedrock of class-bound fatalism. ''Men of good fortune / often cause empires to fall / While men of poor beginning / often can't do anything at all.'' Granted, ''Empire Falls'' is too tangled and populous ![]() Janet Maslin Reviews 'Empire Falls' (May 10, 2001)į Richard Russo had wanted an epigraph for his new novel, he might have chosen a few lines from Lou Reed's album ''Berlin'':.Audio: Richard Russo Reads From 'Empire Falls'.Richard Russo's novel is set in a Maine community of limited prospects. ![]()
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