The Optimist's Son

BRIDGE OF SIGHS By Richard Russo Knopf. 528 pp. $26.95 Richard Russo was already the patron saint of small-town fiction, but with his new novel, Br idge of Sighs-- his first since the Pulitzer Prize-winning Empire Falls-- he's produced his most American story. Once again he places us in a finely...
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