Empire Falls

FIRST VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES EDITION, MAY 2002

Copyright © 2001 by Richard Russo

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2001.

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Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.: Excerpts from “Don’t Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes” by Slim

Willet, copyright © 1952, copyright renewed 1980 by Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. All rights reserved. International rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.

Famous Music Corporation and Hal Leonard Corporation: Excerpt from “Magic Moments,” music by Burt Bacharach and lyrics by Hal David, copyright © 1957, copyright renewed 1985 by Famous Music Corporation and Casa David. International copyright secured. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Famous Music Corporation and Hal Leonard Corporation on behalf of Casa David. Music Sales Corporation and The Estate of Dick Manning: Excerpt from “Hot Diggity,” words and music by Al Hoffman and Dick Manning, copyright © 1956 (copyright renewed) by Al Hoffman Songs, Inc. (ASCAP) and the Dick Manning Music Company. All rights for Al Hoffman Songs, Inc., administered by Music Sales Corporation (ASCAP). All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission of Music Sales Corporation and the Estate of Dick Manning.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:

Russo, Richard, 1949–

Empire falls : a novel / Richard Russo.—1st ed.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-307-80988-9

1. Restaurants—Fiction. 2. Restaurateurs—Fiction. 3. Working class—Fiction.

4. Fathers and daughters—Fiction. 5. Maine—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3568.U812 E4 2001b

813′.54—dc21 2001088568

Author photograph © J. D. Sloan

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