North Bath, Upstate New York, mid-1980s: Donald Sullivan, known to everyone as Sully, leads a comfortable life in the sleepy small town. Despite being divorced, his bad knee giving him trouble, and a secret affair with a married woman, he's content with his life. He's always been adept at shirking responsibility—whether as a husband, a father, or even as a lodger for his former teacher. Now, reality is catching up with him: in the form of his grandson, who's running away from a dysfunctional family, and in the form of a banker who wants to evict Sully from his apartment... "A Perfectly Content Man" is a panorama of endearing eccentrics and a magnificent, sweeping novel: With gentle irony and great understanding for the quirks of his eccentric characters, Russo tells the story of ordinary America. In this novel, which brought him his breakthrough in the USA, Richard Russo reveals the America beyond the glamorous big cities – with a keen sense of tragicomedy. New product