The decline of the Whiting Empire is a novel by Richard Russo published in 2001, the Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction in 2002. Tramamodifies wikitesto
In the city of Maine called Empire Falls, the wealthy Whiting family lives by their textile industries and their possessions as half-city masters. Today the family is in decline, forced to sell their properties to multinationals, throwing Empire Falls into degradation. Among their possessions is the "Empire Grill", the cafe-restaurant run by Miles Roby, a bitter man, with a divorce, his daughter's teenage problems and the character of his elderly father. TV adaptation wikitesto modification
In 2005, a two-part TV movie miniseries called Empire Falls - The Heart Falls and produced by HBO were produced by the novel. The adaptation, directed by Fred Schepisi, has an important cast including Ed Harris, Helen Hunt, Paul Newman and Philip Seymour Hoffman. In 2006 he won a Golden Globe for the best mini-series. Editing the wikitesto editing
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