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Cloudsplitter
Russell Banks
This thoroughly researched novel is Russell Banks's take on John Brown, who raided the federal arsenal in Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in 1859 in an attempt to start a slave rebellion....... read more
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Rule of the Bone
Russell Banks
In Russell Banks's bleak and compelling novel, Chappie is a punky teenager living with his mother and abusive stepfather in a trailer park. He falls in with a group of bikers and thieves,...... read more
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The Darling
Russell Banks
Russell Banks's life of Hannah Musgrave, a fictional Weather Underground member takes her, ultimately, to Africa, where she marries a Liberian official, gives birth to three sons,...... read more
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The Reserve
Russell Banks
In this cinematic, romantic, and action - packed bestseller from Russell Banks (AFFLICTION, THE SWEET HEREAFTER), Jordan Groves, a leftist artist and adventurer in the Hemingway -...... read more
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The Sweet Hereafter
Russell Banks
The story of a tragic accident involving a school bus full of children is told by four people: the driver, a father, a lawyer, and one of the children who survived. Their versions...... read more
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Affliction
Russell Banks
This work of small-town realism is the story of Wade Whitehouse, a born-to-lose, middle-aged blue-collar resident of a bleak New Hampshire community like the one in which Russell Banks...... read more
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Trailerpark
Russell Banks
These bleakly comic short stories are about the inhabitants - - a guinea - pig farmer, a drug dealer, a madwoman - - of Granite State Trailerpark outside the mill town of Catamount,...... read more
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Continental Drift
Russell Banks
Banks's ambitious novel tells two parallel and interlocking stories. Bob Dubois is a New Hampshire oil-burner repairman who hopes to start over in Florida, where his brother has promised...... read more
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The Reserve
Russell Banks
In this cinematic, romantic, and action - packed bestseller from Russell Banks (AFFLICTION, THE SWEET HEREAFTER), Jordan Groves, a leftist artist and adventurer in the Hemingway -...... read more
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The Angel on the Roof
Russell Banks
Acclaimed for his novels, Russell Banks is also an accomplished writer of compelling and lyrical short stories. This is a selection of his work over 20 years: 31 stories, most of them...... read more
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Outer Banks
Russell Banks
An omnibus edition encompassing three lesser-known early works by the author of Affliction includes Family Life, Hamilton Stark, and The Relation of My...... read more
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The Invisible Stranger
Russell Banks
This title is both a collection of photographs by Arturo Patten and a collaborative project with novelist Russell Banks. The two met in Patten's upstate New York home to view the photographer's...... read more
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