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Russell Banks
At the center of Foregone is famed Canadian American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in…
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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…
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John Brown is America’s most famous political terrorist, who in 1859 raided the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, intending to galvanise the Southern slaves into rebellion. This is John’s…
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From one of America's most beloved storytellers: a dazzling tapestry of love and faith, memory and imagination that questions what it means to look back and accept one's place in…
Includes a 24-page P.S.: Insights, interviews & more.
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.
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"Three interlocking stories focusing on the residents of a town called Sam Dent, the undercurrent of the Trump movement in America, and a series of local tragedies"--
A dazzling tapestry of love and faith, memory and imagination, The Magic Kingdom questions what it means to look back and accept onea??s place in history. With an expert eye…
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Robert Niemi
Twaynes United States Authors Series presents concise critical introductions to great writers and their works.
Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an authors work, each study takes account of…
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Gary Russell
David Banks reads an exciting original adventure for the Tenth Doctor and Martha, as played on TV by David Tennant and Freema Agyeman.
The year is 1860, and a lonely…
A septuagenarian leftist documentary filmmaker gives a last interview from his mythologized life to a former star student to whom he discloses his experiences as a draft dodger who fled…
These conversations with Russell Banks span a period of over thirty years, from 1976 with the publication of his first novel, Family Life, and his first collection of short stories…
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If Russell Banks (b. 1940) says he doesn’t think about [his] reader at all when [he’s] writing, he clearly enjoys talking with his actual readers. These conversations span a period…
A collection of short fiction stories spanning the last 30 years from award-winning author Russell Banks.
Kevin T. McEneaney
This book provides comprehensive, up-to-date commentary and critical guidance on the writings of Russell Banks.
A vast, complex novel about colonialism and its legacy on modern-day Africa
An addictively readable story of lives lived under the encroaching shadow of WWII
Russell Banks, uno de los narradores mas sobresalientes de la actual novelistica estadounidense actual, analiza en este breve, agil y esclarecedor ensayo la mentalidad del ciudadano norteamericano, ahondando en las…
Part love story, part murder mystery, Banks remarkable novel engages questions of class, politics, art, love, and madness. Unabridged. 8 CDs.
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…
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…
Drawing on politics, literature, film, and a deep knowledge of American history, Banks traces the first colonists’ differing motives, their points of intersection through the centuries, and the inevitable influence…
Banks explores the complexities of political life in the Caribbean.
In Family Life, Russell Banks’s 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…
A collection of twelve short works that portrays contemporary American family life visits morally complex themes in a fractured nation of inhabitants searching for connection and understanding.
The Relation of My Imprisonment a work of fiction utilizing a form invented in the seventeenth century by imprisoned Puritan divines. Designed to be exemplary, works of this type were…
Written in the tradition of such classics as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Catcher in the Rye, Banks’ astonishing new novel tells the story of a homeless youth living…
From one of America’s most beloved storytellers-a profound novel about belief, betrayal, and the transformation of one corner of the country.
Russell Banks’s new
novel is eerily timely. Can what’s…
Written by the author of Continental Drift , this novel explores a small town’s response to the inexplicable loss of its children in a school bus accident.
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…
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…
The acclaimed, award winning novelist takes listeners on some of his most memorable journeys in this revelatory collection of travel essays that spans the globe, from the Caribbean to Scotland…
The Relation of My Imprisonment is a work of fiction utilizing a form invented in the seventeenth century by imprisoned Puritan divines. Designed to be exemplary, works of this type…
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…
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…
Narrated by the enigmatic Owen Brown, last surviving son of America’s most famous and controversial political terrorist, John Brown, this novel is the recreation of the political and social landscape…
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…
This book examines depictions of the cosmos in natural-philosophical poetry and love lyric in the Renaissance. It argues that some poetic presentations of the cosmos offer particular insight into possible…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Russell Banks’s The Sweet Hereafter, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
Darrell Harper
Scare of the Light: The Dream Memoirs of Russell Banks is a spiritual fantasy novel, with a touch of life’s gritty reality. Dreams are not really what they seem to…
