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	Review \| Empire Falls by Richard Russo
		The plots and subplots in Empire Falls are as numerous as the secondary characters, though all of these subplots hinge on a single theme: the generational bloodsucking of the Whitings and the subsequent repercussions on a seemingly doomed New England town.
		Empire Falls is a stunning, tragicomic portrait of the lives contained there.
		Empire Falls is a perfectly rendered portrait of small town, blue collar life.
	www.januarymagazine.com /fiction/empirefalls.html (807 words)

	Empire Falls - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Empire Falls is a 2001 novel written by Richard Russo set in a fictional small town in Maine.
		Empire Falls was the subject of a song by the same title by Chris Thile on his 2004 solo release Deceiver.
		Set in the small, decaying, and nearly bankrupt town of Empire Falls, Maine, this is the story of Miles Roby (Ed Harris), the unassuming manager of the Empire Grill, who has spent his entire life in the town.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Empire_Falls (1466 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - Empire Falls by Richard Russo
		Dominated by the Whiting family, the founders of the three mills that provided employment for most of the town's residents, Empire Falls finds itself in sharp decline at the turn of the twenty-first century.
		Richard Russo's description of Empire Falls is as memorable and vivid as his portraits of the people who live there.
		Empire Falls traces three very different families—the Whitings, the Robys, and the Mintys—through several generations.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/empire_falls1.asp (1556 words)

	Empire Falls is a genteel, beautifully acted bore. - By Dana Stevens - Slate Magazine
		Empire Falls is a genteel, beautifully acted bore.
		Empire Falls, a nearly four-hour-long adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Richard Russo, premieres this weekend in two parts on HBO (Saturday and Sunday at 9 p.m.
		Besides the reliance on voice-over, Empire Falls has another flaw that runs through it as deeply as the Knox River runs through the town of the title: Ed Harris is miscast as the masochistic sad sack Miles Roby.
	www.slate.com /id/2119797 (880 words)

	Empire Falls by Richard Russo - read excerpt
		By every other standard of Empire Falls, where most single-family homes cost well under seventy-five thousand dollars, his was palatial, with five bedrooms, five full baths, and a detached artist's studio.
		The family mansion in Empire Falls, a huge Georgian affair, built early in the previous century, offered fieldstone fireplaces in every bedroom and a formal dining room whose oak table could accommodate upwards of thirty guests beneath half a dozen glittering chandeliers that had been transported by rail from Boston.
		Europe had not improved her opinion of himself, of Empire Falls or of Maine, as he had hoped it might.
	mostlyfiction.com /excerpts/empirefalls.htm (2488 words)

	CD Baby: EMPIRE FALLS: The Underdogs
		Empire Falls are the kings of working-class hardcore and punk-influenced street rock.
		Empire Falls have created over 50 releases on various formats and have gone through thirty band members since they first formed in 1996.
		Empire Falls was instrumental in reviving the negative hardcore style of the early 80's and are being honored with a tribute CD on a Washington, DC based hardcore label.
	cdbaby.com /cd/empirefalls (170 words)

	Richard Russo : Empire Falls : Book Review
		This, Miles realized was the Empire Falls of his own childhood, he noticed several businesses along Empire Avenue that had been razed over the last two decades, leaving in real life a rash of excess parking lots.
		Though being heir to Empire Falls might be more easily within his grasp now that he is about to be divorced and the Whiting's crippled daughter, Cindy, is back in town.
		Empire Falls is told from the perspective of multiple characters, as such the people in the town become very three-dimensional.
	mostlyfiction.com /contemp/russo.htm (2066 words)

	Amazon.ca: Empire Falls: Books: Richard Russo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the small Maine town of Empire Falls, replete with long defunct logging and textile mills, the Whiting clan embarks on its inexorable demise.
		Falls closely and relentlessly (but not heartlessly) explores some of the many, many ways there are to fail as a child, a parent, and a human being, by following the generations of Robys and Whitings, and their intertwined histories, in Empire Falls.
		Despite its portentously "symbolic" title (hmm, an empire is falling...?), the most refreshing and admirable quality of Richard Russo's new novel is its seductive specificity.
	www.amazon.ca /Empire-Falls-Richard-Russo/dp/0375726403 (3834 words)

	Empire Falls by Richard Russo, published by
		Empire Falls, an industrial town in North Eastern Maine is tired and run
		With Empire Falls, Russo surpasses himself with a big novel in which a small town's past and present are on a collision course....
		Empire Falls, Maine once supported the town with its logging and milling factories.
	www.book-club.co.nz /books/15empirefalls.htm (1013 words)

	Borzoi Reader \| Authors \| Richard Russo
		Dominated by the Whiting family, founders of the various mills that provided employment for most of the town's residents, at the turn of the twenty-first century Empire Falls is in sharp decline.
		Richard Russo's description of town of Empire Falls is as memorable and vivid as his portraits of the people who live there.
		Empire Falls traces three very different families--the Whitings, the Robys, and the Mintys--through several generations.
	www.randomhouse.com /knopf/authors/russo/rgg.html (1596 words)

	AlterNet: War on Iraq: Empire Falls
		Like the empires of old, the United States set out to rule foreign lands – directly, as in the case of Iraq (I won't even pause to rebut the risible claim that that country was recently handed "sovereignty") or indirectly, as in Afghanistan.
		American empire then acquires the tremendous weight of accomplished fact, and the only realistic question becomes not whether to run the world, but only how to do so.
		Ignatieff and Ferguson appear to look at twentieth century history as a contest among empires that was won by the United States, opening the way for it to run the world.
	www.alternet.org /waroniraq/19637 (1980 words)

	Boston.com / News / Local / Skowhegan's empire falls
		The bad news: Skowhegan was chosen partly because it resembles the fictional Empire Falls, a blue-collar Maine community whose down-at-the-heels present is a bleak reminder of the good days from long ago, and good jobs gone far away.
		But like the fictional characters of Empire Falls, who hope that the luxury cars with Massachusetts plates are carrying new money for the mills, Skowhegan's townspeople see promise in the movie.
		Plans are in the works for an annual "Empire Falls" week: Downtown streets and storefronts will be refurbished in 1960s style, and mementos from the film will be preserved at Town Hall.
	www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2003/11/30/skowhegans_empire_falls (1080 words)

	Powell's Books - Empire Falls: A Novel by Richard Russo
		In lieu of the driving narrative voice of Straight Man, Empire Falls delves into a large cast of strong characters who will live on in the reader's mind long after the novel proper has ended.
		Empire Falls, Maine, is a shell of its former self; of this there can be no argument.
		Empire Falls holds the fading culture of small-town life in a light both illuminating and searing.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?show=trade%20paper:new:0375726403:14.95 (1139 words)

	Russo at his best in 'Empire' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		His fifth novel, Empire Falls, is his best yet, a wise, wry, big-hearted epic set in a dying mill town in central Maine.
		Empire Falls, where the Planning and Development Commission is something of a joke, since no one had developed anything, nor was planning to, is populated by a wonderful cast of characters, led by Miles Roby, at 42 the saddest and nicest man in town.
		Given the violence at the end, not to mention references to adultery, masturbation and dumb-as-a-post teachers and coaches, few English teachers may have the guts to recommend Empire Falls to their students.
	www.usatoday.com /life/enter/books/2001-05-31-empire-falls.htm (510 words)

	The Empire Hall of Fame
		Empire falls into the broad category of simulation games and involves military, political, and economic factors.
		Although no goal is explicitly stated, players rapidly derive their own, ranging from the mundane desire to be the biggest, mightiest country in the game and "conquer" all others to the more refined goals of having the most efficient land use possible or the lowest ratio of military to civilians while still surviving, etc.
		The Empire Hall of Fame was created in 1992 by the Suboceanaen Arts and War Academy for the dual purpose of recognizing and recording the legendary exploits of Empire's greatest countries, as well as providing entertainment to the Empire community as a whole.
	web.mit.edu /madpit/www/empire (330 words)

	Governor Pataki Announces Revisions to Niagara Falls Empire Zone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Governor George E. Pataki today announced the approval of a request to revise the existing boundaries of the Niagara Falls Empire Zone to include additional areas and remove land that has limited development potential.
		Among the employers that will benefit from the revisions to the Niagara Falls Empire Zone is AFSA Data Corporation, which plans to invest $2.65 million and create 115 new jobs.
		Charles A. Gargano, Chairman of Empire State Development, which administers the Empire Zones program, said, "The approval of the revisions to the boundaries of the Niagara Falls Empire Zone is a win-win for both the private and public sector.
	www.gorr.state.ny.us /gorr/01_14_02_empire_Niagara_Falls.htm (431 words)

	Empire Falls: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com
		Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the causes of destruction multiplied with the extent of conquest.
		It was 230 years ago that Edward Gibbon published the first volume of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a work conceived, as he put it, "amidst the ruins of the Capitol" in Rome.
		By contrast, the empires of the East, from the Ottoman to the Qing, failed disastrously to modernize themselves.
	www.vanityfair.com /politics/features/2006/10/empire200610 (1237 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "Empire Falls" by Richard Russo
		Russo's Empire Falls is one of those small Maine towns that never recovered from the migration southward of the textile manufacturing jobs that created it.
		There are glimpses of romantic happiness in "Empire Falls," and a few stable long-term bonds, but mainly the novel suggests that people are best off looking elsewhere for consolation.
		As for the vaunted "community" that small towns are said to offer, it amounts, in "Empire Falls," to a few friendships and many more simmering animosities and outright feuds that go back generations.
	archive.salon.com /books/review/2001/05/21/russo (1244 words)

	Empire Falls: by Richard Russo
		Empire Falls, Maine, has seen the inexorable failure of its logging and textile industries, the once mighty holdings of the Whiting clan, presided over by the last scion's widow, now mostly amount to decrepit real estate.
		Shot through with mysteries of generations and the shattering visitations of the nation at large -- Empire Falls is a social novel of stunning ambition, and a master storyteller's magnum opus.
		Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his bestselling Empire Falls -- also named the year's best novel by Time -- Richard Russo now focuses, in his first book of short fiction, on a fresh and fascinating range of human behavior.
	www.harpercollins.com /books/9780694525591/Empire_Falls/index.aspx (589 words)

	Online NewsHour: Pulitzer Prize Winner: Fiction -- May 7, 2002
		It's the name of the Falls, the name of the town, but it's also about an empire that falls in the same way that these little towns failed in New England.
		Originally, actually, the title of this novel was not "Empire Falls," and the name of the town was "Empire Mills," but there were big events that were going to happen at the Falls.
		because the word "Falls" was going to come out later in the sense and I wrote "Empire Falls," and I thought, "wow, I really like that a lot" because there are lots of towns in Maine that actually do have the title "Falls" in their name, the word "falls" in their name.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/conversation/jan-june02/russo_5-07.html (1378 words)

	BookSense.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		One of the earliest images I was visited by for Empire Falls is also one of the first I put in the book: a very thin high school girl walking along a street, weighed down by a backpack full of school books, leaning forward, as if into a strong headwind.
		Both my daughters were still in high school when I began the novel, and Kate, the younger, had already been diagnosed with the beginnings of scoliosis (curvature of the spine) as a result of walking home from school every day under a pack that weighed as much as she did.
		The good news is that Empire Falls, Maine, does exist, at least in part, outside the culture.
	www.booksense.com /people/archive/russorichard.jsp (481 words)

	Empire Falls (The Pro Shop) \| SmartMoney.com
		Those days are over, say Addison Wiggin and Bill Bonner in their new book, "Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis." The authors describe with sardonic humor — and no small amount of name calling — how America has become an overfed, imperial has-been and economic basket case.
		Addison Wiggin: We tried to demonstrate the development of empires over the course of the 20th century and the delusions people believe to make the system work.
		But following the fall of the stock market in 2000, people spent at the same rate, racked up huge amounts of credit-card debt and refinanced their homes.
	www.smartmoney.com /theproshop/index.cfm?story=20051201 (1508 words)

	identity theory \| the narrative thread - richard russo
		And other things, in Empire Falls I’m sure there will be a Gap, and there will be a Starbucks.
		There will be all of those things and the problem is that for these particular people, having spent their lives in one way, most of them are not going to have the skills to do what the new economy of Empire Falls is going to call for.
		If Empire Falls has a lot in common with Mohawk and Bath and even strangely enough Railton [PA] Straight Man is a real departure in its tone and everything else and it’s in Pennsylvania, but Railton is another Russo town.
	www.identitytheory.com /people/birnbaum20.html (6194 words)

	Buy.com - Empire Falls : Richard Russo : ISBN 0375726403
		In Richard Russo's lengthy fifth novel--this one set in a small Maine town--the Empire Grill provides the focus for the town's inhabitants, who include Miles Roby, who manages the place; Francine Whiting, the wealthy woman who owns it; Jimmy the cop; and Miles's large, eccentric, and often comic extended family.
		Many plots intertwine as the townsfolk are revealed in all their odd vulnerability, and Miles surveys them all from behind the counter of the grill.
		Russo was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for his novel EMPIRE FALLS.
	www.buy.com /prod/Empire_Falls/q/loc/106/30891332.html (2876 words)

	Amazon.com: Empire Falls: DVD: Ed Harris,Philip Seymour Hoffman,Helen Hunt,Paul Newman,Robin Wright Penn,Aidan ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It doesnt say here that there are 2 DVDs, but it appears that both parts are included here, as it lists "The Making of Empire Falls" as one of the features, and that is included with the 2nd DVD that I have.
		Empire Falls is a small town set in New England where life is simple and everyone knows everybody.
		Empire Falls is driven by an all star cast of Ed Harris, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Newman, Aidan Quinn, Dennis Farina, Joanne Woodward, and so many more.
	www.amazon.com /Empire-Falls-Ed-Harris/dp/B0009W5IMO (2316 words)

	Empire Falls movie,trailer,review,pics,pictures,poster,news,DVD at The Z Review
		Empire Falls will be released in the U.S. on R1 DVD on the 13th September 2005.
		Tom has been in touch with another update on Empire Falls "Frank Capri III has left a message with our Town's Management that the last scene shot for Empire Falls was not exactly too his liking.
		Jack and Eva have been in touch to advise that filming has finished on Empire Falls "The movie was completed and a wrap party held in Waterville, Maine for about 300 people involved in the film, including the actors and the extras.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/e/empirefalls.htm (2732 words)

	Empire Falls by Richard Russo \| PopMatters Book Review
		Reading Empire Falls, Russo's fifth novel, is like catching up with an old friend -- it just feels good (that and you're sure to get some good gossip).
		Interestingly enough, the town of Empire Falls is as much a character in this book as it is a setting.
		Or maybe it would be more precise to say that the town could also be seen as a kind of attire (which is interesting given the town's chief source of prosperity).
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/e/empire-falls.shtml (1357 words)

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