Au chômage depuis un accident de travail, en procès avec son ex-patron, divorcé et détesté par son fils qu'il a toujours négligé, Sully est indiscutablement l'homme le plus malchanceux et le plus teigneux de North Bath ! Mais le retour de son fils Peter va lui donner l'occasion de se racheter et, qui sait, peut-être de devenir enfin un homme presque parfait.

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 who is in imminent danger of following in his father's footsteps. With its uproarious humor and a heart that embraces humanity's follies as well as its triumphs, Nobody's Fool, from Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Richard Russo, is storytelling at its most generous.