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Oprah Winfrey has selected Richard Russo's novel "Bridge of Sighs" for her book club. The 2007 novel is set in a rural New ...
Dive into Richard Russo's novel "Bridge of Sighs," Oprah's newest book club selection," with these thoughtful questions and ...
Oprah Winfrey 's famous voice failed her recently. When she called Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo to share the ...
Lucky for us, Oprah’s 117th Book Club selection checks all the boxes for a perfect August read. “You all know I love a story that sweeps you up,” says Oprah, “and this one is not going to ...
I (finally) just finished Richard Russo’s The Bridge of Sighs. Most people know Russo for his Pulitzer-winning Empire Falls, which is reminiscent for its deep-rooted sense of place.
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Russo has been announced as the latest author to join Oprah Winfrey's prestigious ...
It has been justly acclaimed over and over again. Bridge of Sighs is fine, but it is not Russo at his best. Still, the similarities between the two might also have a reflexive effect.
It’s difficult to gauge Richard Russo’s politics from his novels. In his latest, “Bridge of Sighs,” there is a near celebration of what have come to be called traditional values: the hardworking ...
Richard Russo's 2001 novel, *Empire Falls*, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2002 and was also adapted into the acclaimed HBO mini-series, starring Paul Newman, Ed Harris, Phillip Seymour Hoffman ...
In a rare move, Oprah Winfrey revives a 20-year-old novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo. The pair joined "CBS Mornings" to talk about the power of revisiting older stories, and the ...
Perhaps Russo means Mr. Marconi to exemplify the mutability of human nature, how one can never really know a person, but that's contradicted by Mrs. Lynch's refrain of "people don't change." ...
Bridge of Sighs Richard Russo, . . Knopf, $26.95 (527pp) ISBN 978-0-375-41495-4 Signature Reviewed by Jeffrey Frank ...