Book 2001

Empire Falls

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Publisher: Knopf
Language: English
Published: 2001

Fiction
Working class
Restaurateurs
Fathers and daughters
Restaurants
Social conditions
Blue collar workers
Maine, fiction

THE EMPIRE GRILL was long and low-slung, with windows that ran its entire length, and since the building next door, a Rexall drugstore, had been condemned and razed, it was now possible to sit at the lunch counter and see straight down Empire Avenue all the way to the old textile mill and its adjacent shirt factory.