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A Permanent Member of the Family
A Permanent Member of the Family
by Russell Banks
A collection of short stories from the contemporary American master whom the New York Times declared "the most compassionate fiction writer working today."Suffused with Russell Banks’s trademark lyricism and reckless humor, the twelve stories in A Permanent Member of the Family examine the myriad ways we try—and sometimes fail—to connect...
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Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature
Continental Drift (P.S.)
Continental Drift (P.S.)
by Russell Banks
“The most convincing portrait I know of contemporary America . . . a great American novel.” — James Atlas, The Atlantic MonthlyFrom acclaimed author Russell Banks, a masterful novel of hope lost and gained—a gripping, indelible story of fragile lives uprooted and transformed by injustice, disappointment, and the seductions and realities...
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Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature
The Book of Jamaica
The Book of Jamaica
by Russell Banks
Russell Banks explores the complexities of political life in the Caribbean.
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Categories: All Science Fiction; All Women's Fiction
The Sweet Hereafter: A Novel
The Sweet Hereafter: A Novel
by Russell Banks
In The Sweet Hereafter, Russell Banks tells a story that begins with a school bus accident. Using four different narrators, Banks creates a small-town morality play that addresses one of life's most agonizing questions: when the worst thing happens, who do you blame?
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Affliction
Affliction
by Russell Banks
Wade Whitehouse is an improbable protagonist for a tragedy. A well-digger and policeman in a bleak New Hampshire town, he is a former high-school star gone to beer fat, a loner with a mean streak. It is a mark of Russell Banks' artistry and understanding that Wade comes to loom in one's mind as a blue-collar American Everyman afflicted...
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Rule of the Bone: A Novel
Rule of the Bone: A Novel
by Russell Banks
In the tradition Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye, Russell Banks’s quintessential novel of a disaffected homeless youth living on the edge of society “redefines the young modern anti-hero. . . . Rule of the Bone has its own culture and language, and Bone is sure to become a beloved character for generations” (San Francisco...
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Categories: Action and Adventure; All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Teen Lit
Trailerpark
Trailerpark
by Russell Banks
Get to know the colorful cast of characters at the Granite State Trailerpark, where Flora in number 11 keeps more than a hundred guinea pigs andscreams at people to stay away from her babies, Claudel in number 5 thinks he is lucky until his wife burns down their trailer and runs off with Howie Leeke, and Noni in number 7 has telephone...
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The Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks
The Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks
by Russell Banks
With The Angel on the Roof, Russell Banks offers readers an astonishing collection of thirty years of his short fiction, revised especially for this volume and highlighted by the inclusion of nine new stories that are among the finest he has ever written. As is characteristic of all of Bank's works, these stories resonate with irony and...
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Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature
The Darling: A Novel
The Darling: A Novel
by Russell Banks
“Russell Banks’s work presents without falsehood and with tough affection the uncompromising moral voice of our time. You find the craziness of false dreams, the political inequalities, and somehow the sliver of redemption.”—Michael OndaatjeSet in Liberia and the United States from 1975 through 1991, The Darling, from acclaimed author...
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Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers
Outer Banks: Three Early Novels
Outer Banks: Three Early Novels
by Russell Banks
An Omnibus Edition of Three Classic Early Novels from the Critically Acclaimed Author of Cloudsplitter and Affliction Family Life: Russell Banks's first novel is an adult fairy tale of a royal family in a mythical contemporary kingdom where the myriad dramas of domesticity blend with an outrageous slew of murders, mayhem, coups...
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Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Humor; All Science Fiction
The Reserve: A Novel (P.S.)
The Reserve: A Novel (P.S.)
by Russell Banks
Part love story, part murder mystery, set on the cusp of the Second World War, Russell Banks's sharp-witted and deeply engaging new novel raises dangerous questions about class, politics, art, love, and madness—and explores what happens when two powerful personalities, trapped at opposite ends of a social divide, begin to break the...
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Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Historical Fiction; All Romance
Dreaming Up America
Dreaming Up America
by Russell Banks
With America ever under global scrutiny, Russell Banks contemplates the questions of our origins, values, heroes, conflicts, and contradictions. He writes with conversational ease and emotional insight, drawing on contemporary politics, literature, film, and his knowledge of American history.
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Categories: All Politics, History and Current Events
Success Stories
Success Stories
by Russell Banks
In Sucess Stories, an exceptionally varied yet coherent collection, Russell Banks proves himself one of the most astute and forceful writers in America today. Queen for a Day, Success Story, and Adultery trace fortunes of the Painter family in there pursuit of and retreat from the American dream. Banks also explores the ethos of rampant...
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Cloudsplitter: A Novel
Cloudsplitter: A Novel
by Russell Banks
A triumph of the imagination and a masterpiece of modern storytelling, Cloudsplitter is narrated by the enigmatic Owen Brown, last surviving son of America's most famous and still controversial political terrorist and martyr, John Brown. Deeply researched, brilliantly plotted, and peopled with a cast of unforgettable characters both...
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Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Historical Fiction
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