Майлз of Роби twenty years prepares burgers in the "Imperial grill, this work costed higher education and handsome stake of self-esteem to him. Майлз is a good fellow, but there is one tragic defect in his character - he is not capable on decisive actions. And his kindness at times not to distinguish from a willingness to go with a stream. Only flows in a small town Эмпайр Фоллз are very intricate. Even the river Нокс loops here, washing ashore everything, that collected higher on the way. So Майлз, from youth trying to break from a stuffy home town, twirls round own life. Maybe, here is he held by clever thin-skinned daughter Tic, that unsupported father not to survive at local school? Or Жанин, without five minutes former wife Майлза, twirling a novel with the gloomily self-enamoured owner of фитнес-клуба? Or imperious Франсин Уайтинг, proprietress all, that is in city, - and, alike, it does "all embrace and Майлза? And does can, necessity to look after an old man a father too smart in the unbearable escapades? Or however secrets of the past, defining life and Майлза, and many other in city? In "Эмпайр Фоллз" Richard Rousseau immerses a reader in the world of little life, where so oddities, love affairs, passions, funny and tragic events, seethe."Эмпайр Фоллз" is a novel humane, complete humour, sympathy, sadness and gladnesses. In 2002 a book got Пулитцеровскую bonus. Richard Rousseau practically was not translated into the Russian language (pair of stories in a magazine variant not in an account), and it is a large blank, because Rousseau - not only the large writer shown kindness toward by critics is crowned by bonuses and darling by readers, but his books must be especially near exactly to the Russian reader.More interesting facts about this book read in