{"id":4271,"date":"2019-02-27T02:08:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T07:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/?p=4271"},"modified":"2019-02-10T21:40:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T02:40:20","slug":"audiobook-review-everybodys-fool-by-richard-russo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2019\/02\/audiobook-review-everybodys-fool-by-richard-russo.html","title":{"rendered":"Audiobook Review : Everybody’s Fool by Richard Russo"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"\"Title : Everybody’s Fool
\nAuthor : Richard Russo
\nGenre : Fiction (Contemporary)
\nNarrators : Mark Bramhall
\nPublisher : Random House Audio
\nListening Length : 18 hours 53 minutes
\nRating : 4.2\/5
\nNarrator Rating : 5\/5
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Everybody\u2019s Fool is the sequel to Nobody\u2019s Fool<\/a><\/strong> and was written a good 10 years after that released. It is situated in the same small fictional town of North Bath with just about the same cast of characters \u2013 Sully, et al., except this time the main character, the man who considers himself everybody\u2019s fool is Police Chief Doug Raymer.<\/p>\n

Raymer was a minor character in Nobody\u2019s Fool but here takes center stage as a man with serious thoughts of depression. Raymer\u2019s wife, whom he believes he was lucky to marry (she apparently being way above his league) was about to leave him for another man when she died of a fall down the stairs. His grief at her loss is tempered by feelings of jealousy and betrayal. She made a fool of him but he has not been able to let go of her, and the anger has now turned into self-loathing. Things must come to a head, and we keep building up to it during the course of this novel.<\/p>\n

We also get to hear from Sully. Since Nobody\u2019s Fool he\u2019s risen up in the world (relatively speaking), his relationship with son and grandson has improved but his health has suffered \u2013 he has about 2 years until his heart gives out, per the VA cardiologist. There\u2019s also Rub Squeers, who\u2019s waging a minor battle to still remain Sully\u2019s \u201cbest friend\u201d, Carl Roebuck, Sully\u2019s erstwhile boss, who\u2019s had a fortune reversal, and Sully\u2019s on-again-off-again mistress Ruth, her daughter Janey and her abusive, no-good of an ex-husband Roy Purdy.<\/p>\n

These are all intricate threads of the same story, and Russo, master storyteller that he is, keeps them all twanging heart-achingly, fleshing out their lives perfectly. Everybody\u2019s Fool is populated (just like the rest of his books are) by everyday, ordinary characters struggling with their personal challenges, making decisions some good, some bad. Russo makes every one of these characters real, so that we are completely invested in Sully and Raymer and the rest of their cohorts.<\/p>\n

While Empire Falls<\/a><\/strong> remains my favorite, Everybody\u2019s Fool comes a close second. It is gorgeously written, beautifully detailed and progresses at a decent pace (something I thought Nobody\u2019s Fool lacked). Narrator Mark Bramhall is an absolute marvel! Highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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