Russell Banks

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Cloudsplitter

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 Bro...

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Published: Feb 1999

The Reserve

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 ha...

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Published: Feb 2009

Rule of the Bone: Novel, A

Russell Banks

Slipping into the dangerous world of drugs and petty theft as a means of rebelling against an abusive home life, a teenaged Chappie takes on a new identity and encounters a host of unusual characters, including a sexually victimized y...

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Published: May 1996

Continental Drift

Russell Banks

A powerful literary classic from one of contemporary fiction's most acclaimed and important writers, Russell Banks's Continental Drift is a masterful novel of hope lost and gained, and a gripping, indelible story of fragile lives upr...

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Published: Mar 2007

Sweet Hereafter Movie Tie-In

Russell Banks

A brilliant and powerful novel from the critically acclaimed author of Continental Drift that explores a small town's response to the inexplicable loss of its children in a school bus accident. 'A novel of compelling moral suspense. ....

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Published: Dec 1997

Lost Memory of Skin

Russell Banks

"Like our living literary giants Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon, Russell Banks is a great writer wrestling with the hidden secrets and explosive realities of this country."—Cornel West"Of the many writers working in...

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Published: Jul 2012

The Angel on the Roof: The Stories of...

Russell Banks

Offers award-winning short fiction from an acclaimed novelist that resonates with irony and compassion, honesty and insight, extending into the vast territory of the heart and world, from working class New England to Florida, the Carr...

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Published: May 2001

Hamilton Stark

Russell Banks

Hamilton Stark is a New Hampshire pipe fitter and the sole inhabitant of the house from which he evicted his own mother. He is the villain of five marriages and the father of a daughter so obsessed that she has been writing a book abo...

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Published: Jun 1996

Permanent Member of the Family

Russell Banks

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 with one another, as we seek a home in the wo...

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Published: Sep 2014

The Darling

Russell Banks

The Darling is Hannah Musgrave's story, told emotionally and convincingly years later by Hannah herself. A political radical and member of the Weather Underground, Hannah has fled America to West Africa, where she and her Liberian hus...

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Published: Oct 2005

Outer Banks: Three Early Novels

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 ki...

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Published: Jul 2008

Book of Jamaica

Russell Banks

Chapter One This part of my story begins one evening early in January 1976 in Anchovy, Jamaica, a country village clinging to the hills of St. James Parish about twelve miles south and west of Montego Bay. At that time I was residing ...

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Published: May 1996

Success Stories

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 ...

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Published: Jun 1996

Trailerpark

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 unt...

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Published: Jun 1996
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