Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo
Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo Donald "Sully" Sullivan is living with the ghost of his father, whose abuse and neglect pervades Sully's daily doings in the small town of North Bath, NY where the 60-year-old child in a man's body lives and works. Sully is the embodiment of a person who gets in his own way and refuses to change. And he doesn't really change much during the entirety of Nobody's Fool . Sully lives a bachelor's life in a second floor flat in a house owned by his 8th grade English teacher Miss Peoples, whom he holds some affection for. He spends his days at his various hangouts (a diner, a bar, the OTB betting parlor, and his juvenile boss's office), always short of cash and carting around his dimwit best friend. He is romantically involved with a married woman, flirts with various other women, and nurses a bum knee. On top of this, he has quit college, a prerequisite to getting disability benefits. Another friend, Wirf who is his lawy...