One of America“s most prestigious fiction writers, Russell Banks is president of the International Parliament of Writers and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been translated into twenty languages and has received numerous international prizes and awards. He lives in upstate New York.
44 Ebooks von Russell Banks
Yanick Lahens: Moonbath
The award-winning saga of a peasant family living in a small Haitian village, told through four generations of voices, recounting through stories of tradition and superstition, voodoo and the new god …
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Russell Banks: Reserve
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 fin …
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€7.99
Russell Banks: Lost Memory of Skin
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 unforgett …
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€6.11
Russell Banks: Permanent Member of the Family
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 Bankss trade …
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€4.73
Russell Banks: Affliction
"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 ar …
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Russell Banks: Sweet Hereafter
"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 …
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€8.99
Russell Banks: Continental Drift
The most convincing portrait I know of contemporary America . . . a great American novel. James Atlas, The Atlantic Monthly A reissue of Russell Banks classic novel about love and sex, racism and pov …
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€12.09
Russell Banks: Success Stories
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 Adul …
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€7.99
Russell Banks: Cloudsplitter
"Deeply affecting. . . . Like the best novels of Nadine Gordimer, it makes us appreciate the dynamic between the personal and the political, the public and the private, and the costs and causes …
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€17.91
Russell Banks: Rule of the Bone
In the tradition Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye, Russell Bankss quintessential novel of a disaffectedhomeless youth living on the edge of society redefines the young modern anti-hero…. …
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€14.81
Russell Banks: Angel on the Roof
"At his shattering best. . . Banks offers answers that are tough, honest, and inevitable without being simple. . . . A book that is not to be missed." New York Times With The Angel on the R …
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Russell Banks: Darling
A New York Times Notable Book National Bestseller Russell Bankss work presents without falsehood and with tough affection the uncompromising moral voice of our time. You find the craziness of false d …
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Russell Banks: Voyager
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 T …
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€8.99
Russell Banks: Book of Jamaica
"A truly excellent novel. . . . The morbidly fascinating little twists of human existence are all here: love, sex, life and death, beauty and horrorthe works."Chicago Sun-Times In The Book …
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Russell Banks: Family Life
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 (du …
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€7.39
Russell Banks: Outer Banks
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&q …
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Russell Banks: Hamilton Stark
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 t …
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€7.99
Russell Banks: Relation of My Imprisonment
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&q …
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€7.39
Russell Banks: Trailerpark
"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 th …
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€8.99
Russell Banks: Reserve
In this compelling novel a cross between Lady Chatterley’s Loverand The Aviator the acclaimed modern master takes us to riveting new territory.Part love story, part murder mystery, Russell Banks’s Th …
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€32.49
Russell Banks: Darling
After many years of believing that I never dream of anything, I dreamed of Africa.Over a decade after leaving her three sons behind in Liberia, Hannah Musgrave realizes she has to leave her farm in t …
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€32.26
Russell Banks: Rule Of The Bone
Chappie is a punked-out teenager rejected by his mother and abusive stepfather. Out of school and in trouble with the police, he drifts through crash pads, doper squats, and malls until he finally se …
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€32.43
Russell Banks: Lost Memory of Skin
The author of Continental Drift, Rule of the Bone and The Sweet Hereafter returns with a very original, riveting mystery about a young outcast, and a contemporary tale of guilt and redemption.The per …
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€33.94
Russell Banks: Permanent Member of the Family
A sterling collection of short stories from the author of Rule of the Bone and The Sweet Hereafter–his first in almost fifteen years–including six never-before-published works. One of our most pres …
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€37.06
Benjamin Hale & Bradford Morrow: Menagerie
Russell Banks, Temple Grandin, and other renowned writers contemplate animalsand the way our own species interacts with them. Conjunctions: 61, A Menagerie gathers essays, fiction, and poetry that im …
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€11.56
Bradford Morrow: Natural Causes
New takes on nature by award-winning poets and writers, from Russell Banks to Lily Tuck and many more. In Natural Causes, a provocative collection of radical reinventions of the genre of …
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€11.51
Mavis Gallant: Montreal Stories
In Gallants stories, the conflicts, obsessions, and concerns the near-impossibility of gaining personal freedom without inflicting harm on those whom you love and who love you; the difficulty of forg …
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€38.47
Russell Banks: A Permanent Member of the Family
One of America’s most prestigious writers, Russell Banks is a literary icon whose works probe the deepest recesses of American life. His profound and resonant stories of the lives of ordinary America …
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€9.49
Russell Banks: Lost Memory of Skin
Suspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, a young man must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison w …
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€10.99
Colin Channer: Girl with the Golden Shoes
By the author of Waiting in Vain: “A sparkling gift, the tale of a meager, shoeless, raggedy abandoned Cinderella whose hardships make her all the wiser” (The Washington Post). Set …
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€15.37
Margaret Atwood & Russell Banks: The World Split Open: Great Authors on How and Why We Write
Since 1984, Literary Arts has welcomed many of the world’s most renowned authors and storytellers to its stage. In celebration of their thirty-year anniversary, Tin House Books has collected highligh …
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€17.99
Bradford Morrow: Natural Causes
New takes on nature by award-winning poets and writers, from Russell Banks to Lily Tuck and many more. In Natural Causes, a provocative collection of radical reinventions of the genre of …
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€11.46
Benjamin Hale & Bradford Morrow: Menagerie
Russell Banks, Temple Grandin, and other renowned writers contemplate animalsand the way our own species interacts with them. Conjunctions: 61, A Menagerie gathers essays, fiction, and poetry that im …
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€11.56
Russell Banks: Foregone
At the centre 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 Vietnam. Fife …
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Russell Banks: Foregone
A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2021 A searing story about memory and betrayal from the acclaimed and bestselling Russell Banks In his late seventies and dying of cancer, famed Canadian-America …
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Russell Banks: Foregone
A searing novel about memory, abandonment, and betrayal from the acclaimed and bestselling Russell Banks"During a career stretching almost half a century, Russell Banks has published an extraord …
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€5.67
Russell Banks: The Magic Kingdom
A dazzling tapestry of love and faith, memory and imagination, The Magic Kingdom questions what it means to look back and accept one's place in history. With an expert eye and stunning vision, R …
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€6.99
Russell Banks: American Spirits
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 …
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€6.99
R.S. Jones: Walking on Air
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 …
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