<p>Richard Russo''s slyly funny and moving novel follows the unexpected workings of grace in a deadbeat town in upstate New York - and in the life of one of its unluckiest citizens, Sully, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years.<br><br>Divorced from his own wife and carrying on halfheartedly with another man''s, saddled with a bum knee and friends who make enemies redundant, Sully now has one new problem to cope with: a long-estranged son who is in imminent danger of following in his father''s footsteps. With its sly and uproarious humour and a heart that embraces humanity''s follies as well as its triumphs, <i>Nobody''s Fool</i> is storytelling at its most generous.</p>