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54 produkter
Cloudsplitter
Häftad, 2006
239 kr
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Owen Brown is the last surviving son of America's most famous political terrorist, John Brown, who in 1859 raided the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, intending to galvanise the Southern slaves into rebellion. Now Owen tells John's story. This incredible novel recreates pre-Civil War …
Darling
Ljudbok, 2004
254 kr
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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 husband become friends and colleagues of Charles Taylor, the …
Continental Drift
Häftad, 2007
239 kr
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“The most convincing portrait I know of contemporary America . . . a great American novel.” — James Atlas, The Atlantic Monthly From acclaimed author Russell Banks, a masterful novel of hope lost and gained — a gripping, indelible story of fragile lives uprooted and transformed by injustice, …
Reserve
Ljudbok, 2008
459 kr
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Part love story, part murder mystery, set on the cusp of the Second World War, Russell Banks'' sharp-witted and deeply engaging new novel raises dangerous questions about class, politics, art, love, and madness-and explores what happens when two powerful personalities begin to break the rules. …
Reserve
A Novel
E-bok, 2009
91 kr
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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 happens when two powerful personalities, trapped at opposite ends of …
Lost Memory of Skin
Ljudbok, 2011
525 kr
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“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 the great tradition today, one of the best is Russell Banks.†— New …
Lost Memory of Skin
E-bok, 2011
69 kr
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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 results Suspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, the young man at the center of …
Permanent Member of the Family
E-bok, 2013
54 kr
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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. In the title story, a father looks back on the legend of the …
Affliction
E-bok, 2012
113 kr
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Wade Whitehouse is an improbable protagonist for a tragedy. A well-digger and policeman in a bleak New Hampshire town, he is a former high-school star gone to beer fat, a loner with a mean streak. It is a mark of Russell Banks'' artistry and understanding that Wade comes to loom in one''s mind as a …
Sweet Hereafter
A Novel
E-bok, 2011
102 kr
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In The Sweet Hereafter, Russell Banks tells a story that begins with a school bus accident. Using four different narrators, Banks creates a small-town morality play that addresses one of life''s most agonizing questions: when the worst thing happens, who do you blame?
Success Stories
E-bok, 2011
91 kr
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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 there pursuit of and retreat from the American dream. …
Angel on the Roof
The Stories of Russell Banks
E-bok, 2011
113 kr
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With The Angel on the Roof, Russell Banks offers readers an astonishing collection of thirty years of his short fiction, revised especially for this volume and highlighted by the inclusion of nine new stories that are among the finest he has ever written. As is characteristic of all of Bank''s …
Voyager
Travel Writings
E-bok, 2016
102 kr
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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-seventies, Russell Banks has indulged his wanderlust for more …
