Nobody's Fool Commonwealth Writers' Prize (2009) Determined to escape the parochial

Determined to escape the parochial English enclave and explore the 'real India'

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under which members of different groups had long been held to distinct standards of familial and sexual morality

Mr 137 and Mr 600

this sterling collection brings together exhilarating pieces by a who's who of scientists and science writers

Nobody's Fool Commonwealth Writers' Prize (2009) Determined to escape the parochialRichard Russo's slyly funny and moving novel follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbeat town in upstate New Yorkand in the life of one of its unluckiest citizens, Sully, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years. Divorced from his own wife and carrying on halfheartedly with another man's, saddled with a bum knee and friends who make enemies redundant, Sully now has one new problem to cope with: a long estranged son