Author | Richard Russo |
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Language | English |
Genre | Novel |
Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
Publication date | July 25, 2023 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
Pages | 464 |
ISBN | 978-0593317891 |
Preceded by | Everybody's Fool |
Somebody’s Fool is a 2023 novel by American author Richard Russo. It is the third installment in Russo's "North Bath Trilogy", following Nobody’s Fool (1993) and Everybody’s Fool (2016). The book is set in the fictional town of North Bath in Upstate New York, and it continues the storylines of characters from the previous books. Russo explores themes of small-town life, aging, and mortality. The book was published by Alfred A. Knopf to critical success, with a critic from The New York Times calling it Russo’s "best book."[1]