Description: 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 author.
Brief description:
Russell Banks, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, was one of America's most prestigious fiction writers, a past 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 he received numerous prizes and awards, including the Common Wealth Award for Literature. He died in January 2023 at the age of eighty-two.
Review Quotes:
"A marvelously written little book, fascinatingly intricate, yet deceptively simple. Well worth reading more than once." - New York Times Book Review
"A success. . . . Ironic, melancholy, and haunting." - Newsweek
"Stunning and original. . . . Russell Banks's most sustained, intricate, and impressive work to date." - Chicago Sun-Times
"Russell Banks has written several inventive novels; he deserves wide and serious attention." - Boston Globe
"Witty and profound. . . Russell Bank's tale of a jailed coffin-maker is a small but marvelous addition to the gallery of trapped minds." - Washington Post Book World
"Banks has skillfully used his repertoire of contemporary techniques to write a novel that is classically American--a dark, but sometimes funny, romance with echoes of Poe and Melville." - Washington Post
"He writes a fine, clear prose--some of the best, in fact, now being written by anyone." - New York Times Book Review
"Well worth investigating." - Washington Post Book World