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Review title: Lightweight and banal
Product review: When I heard that Richard Russo's "Empire Falls" won the Pulitzer Prize and was about blue-collar life, I was expecting something a lot more serious and with a harder edge. I was disappointed to discover that it's lightweight fluff. Some of the characters and situations are not to be believed. Miles Roby, the angst-ridden main character, is defined by his relationship to the various women in his life. I just didn't care about the characters or situations. This book reminded me a lot of Richard Ford's "Independence Day," another book I didn't care for. Is this really the best fiction of the year?
