Richard Russo

Small-town diners

by Keith Taylor

posted 5/1/2006

Among his many other qualities, Richard Russo is our contemporary master of the fictional small town, and particularly of the small-town diner. His novels, though set in small places, are big and sprawling, in the best sense. They involve lots of characters of all generations; his characters come from all the different classes that make up any place (although

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