美国当代作家理查德·拉索以《帝国没落》(2001年5月出版)赢得了2002年度普利策文学奖。该作品从不同角色的视角展开叙述,全方位地讲述了缅因州一个不为人知的小镇——帝国瀑布的过去和现在、历史和现实相碰撞的生活。小说角色纷繁,情节交错复杂,对小镇上的凶杀、腐败和小镇日常生活的方方面 American contemporary writer Richard Laso won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature 2002 for “The Decline of the Empire” (May 2001). The story unfolds from a different perspective and tells the story of the past, present, history and reality of the Imperial Falls, an unknown little town in Maine. Various roles of the novel, the plot is complicated, on the town of homicide, corruption and the town’s daily life aspects