Books written by Russell Banks

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The World Split Open: Great Authors on How and Why We Write

Well, that's not altogether true: there are a few moments in each that make me cringe and crouch low in my seat when I see them. But overall I am delighted to have been associated with the making of those two films, Affliction and The ...
The World Split Open: Great Authors on how and why We Write

Selected from thirty years' worth of lectures hosted by Literary Arts in Portland, presents commentary from such popular authors as Margaret Atwood, Russell Banks, and E.L. Doctorow on why they write and their creative processes.
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In this series of related short stories, Russell Banks offers gripping, realistic portrayals of individual Americans and paints a portrait of New England life that is at once dark, witty, and revealing.
A Permanent Member of the Family

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.
Rule Of The Bone

Chappie is a punked-out teenager rejected by his mother and abusive stepfather.
Cloudsplitter

A triumph of the imagination, rich in incident and beautiful in its detail, Cloudsplitter brings to life one of history's legendary figures--John Brown, whose passion to abolish slavery lit the fires of the American Civil War in a ...
The Magic Kingdom

"In 1971, a property speculator named Harley Mann begins recording his life story onto a reel-to-reel machine.
The Angel On The Roof

Along with nine new stories that are among the finest fiction he has ever written, he has selected the best from his collections and revised them for this volume.
The Reserve

In this compelling novel – a cross between Lady Chatterley’s Lover and The Aviator – the acclaimed modern master takes us to riveting new territory.
Book of Jamaica

Russell Banks explores the complexities of political life in the Caribbean.
Voyager: Travel Writings

In each of these remarkable essays, Banks considers his life and the world. In Everglades National Park this “perfect place to time-travel,” he traces his own timeline.
The Darling: A Novel

Set in Liberia and the United States from 1975 through 1991, The Darling is the story of Hannah Musgrave, a political radical and member of the Weather Underground.
The Sweet Hereafter

The Sweet Hereafter was released as a major motion picture by Atom Egoyan in 1997 and won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. Egoyan also received Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay that year.
Continental Drift

Continental Drift is the story of a young blue-collar worker and family man who abandons his broken dreams in New Hampshire and the story of a young Haitian woman who, with her nephew and baby, flees the brutal injustice and poverty of her ...
Continental Drift

Continental is a major novel about uprootedness and exploitation in contemporary America. A writer with a rapidly growing reputation, Russell Banks has brought together the two dominant realms f his...
Lost Memory of Skin

Banks has long been one of our most acute and insightful novelists. Lost Memory of Skin is a masterful work of fiction that unfolds in language both powerful and beautifully lyrical.
The Darling: A Novel

You find the craziness of false dreams, the political inequalities, and somehow the sliver of redemption.”—Michael Ondaatje Set in Liberia and the United States from 1975 through 1991, The Darling, from acclaimed author Russell Banks, ...
The Magic Kingdom: A novel

“You mean, tell you what I left out of my account of Sadie's and my conversation the day she died and my meeting later with Elder John? Other than what I have just told you about the nature of my relationship with Sadie?” “Yes.
The Sweet Hereafter: A Novel

Here is a stunning novel of "compelling moral suspense" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) from one of America's greatest storytellers. In The Sweet Hereafter, Russell Banks tells a story that begins with a school bus accident.