Money if they were across the border in Vermont." But Mr. North Bath is the sort of community we might drive through without pausing, except to fantasize roomier lives for ourselves in its "aging clapboard Victorians and sprawling Greek Revivals that would have been worth some His ambitious new novel, "Nobody's Fool," is set in North Bath, N.Y., a fractionally less blighted version of the blue-collar deadĮnd where his earlier novels, "Mohawk" and "The Risk Pool," take place. Such towns, which I imagined to be off the edge of the map,Īre very much at the center of Richard Russo's fictional geography. Not willingly let me go, I used to dream of disappearing to some remote upstate New York town and checking in, a permanent guest, at its crumbling bleak hotel. JSmall-Town Smart Alecks By FRANCINE PROSEĮars ago, when I felt that the world weighed too heavily on my shoulders and believed (as only the young do) that the world would
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