Superficially speaking, Russo has never tackled many of the big subjects beloved of other Great American Novelists, but books such as The Risk Pool, Mohawk, Nobody's Fool and Empire Falls (his best-known novel, which won him the 2002 Pulitzer prize for fiction) have an epic feel that belies their provincial backdrops, and are beloved of the likes of Annie Proulx and Paul Newman (who starred in the screen adaptations of the latter two novels).
Richard Russo is best-known for writing novels about small-town American life: a string of under-read (in the UK, at least) barfly classics, set in blue-collar towns in the space between New York and Canada, and often bringing to mind an even funnier, more earthy John Irving.
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