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From one of America's most celebrated storytellers come three dark, interlocking tales about the residents of a rural New York town, and the shocking headlines that become their local mythologies. A husband sells property to a mysterious, temperam...

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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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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 uproo...

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Wade Whitehouse is an unlikely protagonist of a tragedy. Wade looms in one's mind as a bluecollar American Everyman afflicted by the dark secret of the macho tradition, his tale told by his articulate, equally-scarred younger brother. "Part t...

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When we first meet him, Chappie is a punked-out teenager living with his mother and abusive stepfather in an upstate New York trailer park. During this time, he slips into drugs and petty crime. Rejected by his parents, out of school and in troubl...

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This brilliant recounting of the events surrounding John Brown's legendary raid on the armory at Harper's Ferry is a masterpiece of modern American storytelling.

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A collection of short fiction stories spanning the last 30 years from award-winning author Russell Banks.

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Set in Liberia and the United States from 1975 through 1991, "The Darling" tells the story of Hannah Musgrave, a radical member of the Weather Underground--"a descendant of Joan Didion's alienated, terminally detached woman . . . [a...

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Visiting Jamaica, where he is confronted with the beauty, brutality, and social complexity of the island, the unnamed narrator struggles to come to grips with a series of events that frighten and confuse him.

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Moving from the secluded beauty of the Adirondacks to war-torn Spain and fascist Germany, "The Reserve" is a passionately romantic novel of suspense and drama that adds a new dimension to this acclaimed author's extraordinary repertoire.

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Part love story, part murder mystery, set on the cusp of the Second World War, Russell Banks's newest novel raises dangerous questions about class, politics, art, love, and madness-and explores what happens when two powerful personalities begin to...

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This omnibus edition collects three extraordinary but often overlooked early works by Banks--"Family Life, Hamilton Stark," and "The Relation of My Imprisonment"--and features a new Introduction by the author.

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William Addams is dying. Controlling, mercurial, and estranged from his family, he is consumed by the fear that he'll be abandoned by Henry and Susan, his closest friends, the only people on whom he can rely.What he wants is for their faithfulness...

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At once a harrowing mystery, an illuminating psychological novel of subverted love and family dysfunction, and a powerful commentary on class structure in America . . . [Banks is] one of Americas finest contemporary fiction writers. Boston GlobePa...

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From the author of "Affliction" and "Cloudsplitter" is the story of The Kid; a young sex offender recently released from prison and forced to live beneath a South Florida causeway in an incisive understanding of the dangerous c...

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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 world. ...

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"Banks's narrative seductively juxtaposes rambles through lush volcanic mountains, white sand beaches and coral reefs with a barrage of memories of the hash he's made of his private life.” -The New York Times Book Review Now in his mid-...

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The acclaimed author of The Sweet Hereafter and Rule of the Bone returns with a provocative new novel that illuminates the shadowed edges of contemporary American culture with startling and unforgettable resultsSuspended in a strangely modern-day ...

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A collection of short stories from the contemporary American master whom the New York Times declared "e;the most compassionate fiction writer working today."e;Suffused with Russell Bankss trademark lyricism and reckless humor, the twelve s...

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"e;Banks has taken on a profound theme, the ruinous and awful affliction of violence that seems to live like a secret blood-disease handed down in men like Wade. . . . He turns it into a living art that can bring recognition and awe."e;Los...

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"e;Rich in imagery and the detail of small-town life and haunting in its portrayal of ordinary men and women struggling to understand loss. Under Mr. Banks's restrained craftsmanship, what begins as the story of senseless tragedy is transforme...

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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 the...

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"e;At his shattering best. . . Banks offers answers that are tough, honest, and inevitable without being simple. . . . A book that is not to be missed."e; New York TimesWith The Angel on the Roof, acclaimed author Russell Banks offers read...

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Bankss narrative seductively juxtaposes rambles through lush volcanic mountains, white sand beaches and coral reefs with a barrage of memories of the hash hes made of his private life. The New York Times Book ReviewRussell Banks has indulged his w...

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"e;A truly excellent novel. . . . The morbidly fascinating little twists of human existence are all here: love, sex, life and death, beauty and horrorthe works."e;Chicago Sun-TimesIn The Book of Jamaica, Russell Banks explores the complexi...

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In Family Life, Russell Bankss first novel, he transforms the dramas of domesticity into the story of a royal family in a mythical contemporary kingdom. Life inside this kingdom includes the king (dubbed the Hearty or the Bluff), who squeals angri...

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Banks has skillfully used his repertoire of contemporary techniques to write a novel that is classically Americana dark, but sometimes funny, romance with echoes of Poe and Melville.Washington Post"e;A marvelously written little book, fascinat...

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Banks has skillfully used his repertoire of contemporary techniques to write a novel that is classically Americana dark, but sometimes funny, romance with echoes of Poe and Melville.Washington Post"e;A marvelously written little book, fascinat...

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"e;Each story is uncommonly good. . . surprising, lively writing and believably human characters. . . . Banks has a terrific eye, mordant yet affectionate, for the bric-a-brac and the pathos of the American dream."e;Washington Post Book Wo...

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A searing novel about memory, abandonment, and betrayal from the acclaimed and bestselling Russell Banks At the center of Foregone is famed Canadian American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deser...

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