There are no fools. Russo R.

One of the best novels by Richard Rousseau. The witty and touching story about how the North Bat is condescending to the sleepy provincial town of North Bath, or the curse-here each of its inhabitants chooses himself.

Donald Sullivan, whom everyone calls Sally, sixty, and all his life with triumphal stubbornness he made only mistakes, even if he was not a fool. He is lonely, although he is surrounded by a crowd of people, a sick knee sometimes interferes with his move normally, his friends are such that sometimes enemies are not needed, and problems pour on Sally one after another, or maybe he finds them himself. All my life he relied only on himself, he chose his own path, but if this path was at a standstill, it means a fool himself.

a difficult childhood with a fertile father, an unlucky marriage, failure one after another-such is Sally , but no one will turn to call him a loser, because Sally himself chooses who he should be. And here is a new trouble: in the North Bat a son appeared, with whom Sally and a sign is barely, but something needs to be done with him-otherwise he will repeat the unenviable fate of Sally, a man attracting trouble, large and small. Late autumn and the coming winter become the next “stupid strip” in the life of the “non-Durak” Donald Sullivan, and he will again go to overcome this strip, once again choosing a trail of self-destruction, which will be equally both cheerful and Gorky.

“There are no fools”-the first book of the trilogy about the town of North Bat, a real encyclopedia of the life of an American outback. Irony, humor, warmth, humanity and charming heroes. This is a novel that the nonsense created by people can sometimes be much smarter and noble than the deeds of prudent and correct.