Sully the Fool
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"Duology of Fools" is a series of works by the famous American writer Richard Russo. The novel tells the story of the decline of the American Rust Belt and the people at the bottom struggling in the decadence. Through the daily depiction of the small town, the writer keenly captures the life dilemmas, family conflicts, emotional entanglements, fulfillment and evasion of moral obligations of contemporary people. The seemingly simple family love presents complex emotional tension in Russo's writing. "Sully the Fool" is the first part of the "Duology of Fools". With humorous, seasoned, and touching words, the writer depicts the life of Bath Town, a simple town in northern New York: unhappy marriages, estranged father-son relationships, ruthless capital erosion, hopeless people who adhere to the bottom line of human nature... The novel unfolds with the life of the town's most unlucky resident, Sully, and radiates to a network of characters related to him. Sully is a man who tries his best to be alone all his life. He is cynical, perverse and rebellious. He lives his life, hates and is hated by the world around him. He is unable to change his destiny, but he is always ready to reshape the world through his own free will.
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