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| | 2. |  | Rule of the Bone: A Novel
from HarperPerennial
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Okay, every generation X,Y or Z (including my generation, the generation of '68) has to have its own coming of age stories, male or female. For this reviewer, always full of a sense of the necessity to understand his own misbegotten youth, J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye explored the longings for... more info
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| | 3. |  | The Reserve
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..........that the man who wrote Affliction, The Sweet Hereafter, and Continental Drift also wrote The Reserve. Into the second chapter, I had to double check that there weren't two authors named Russell Banks. The story is just plain odd - the characters have no depth, no nuance and their actions... more info
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| | 4. |  | The Darling: A Novel
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(Just a wee addition to the other 5-star reviews...)
How does Russell Banks do it? This has to be the richest, most complex and truest portrait written by a man of the inner life of a woman... particularly in Hannah's assessment of the men in her life and her relationship to them. (Of course,... more info
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| | 5. |  | Cloudsplitter: A Novel
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I had high hopes for this book, but I was quickly disappointed. Reading it is something like seeing Jack Nicholson playing Mark Twain in a one-man show: never at any time do you believe that the man onstage is anyone other than Jack Nicholson. Likewise, as I read, I saw only Banks at work, never... more info
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| | 6. |  | Trailerpark
from Harper Perennial
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I picked this book up at a used book store in Greece more than 10 years ago, and it has stuck with me as one of the most memorable books I've ever read. But, you should know I am a fan of dark fiction and tales of addiction and insanity. Anyway, I think you'll enjoy it -- much better than Banks'... more info
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| | 7. |  | A Walk on the Wild Side: A Novel
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As I have mentioned in other reviews of Nelson Algren's work, such as The Man With The Golden Arm, I am personally very familiar with the social milieu that he is working. Growing up in a post-World War II built housing project this reviewer knew first hand the so-called `romance' of drugs, the gun,... more info
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| | 8. |  | Continental Drift (P.S.)
from Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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In reading Continental Drift, a tragedy in every sense, I was struck by how usual the novel was in its structure and its distinct narrator. Banks employs a Haitian loa (a spirit of the dead) to tell us the story of Bob Dubois, a frustrated, blue-collar resident of New Hampshire, and Vanise... more info
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| | 9. |  | Affliction
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I can only conclude after finishing `Affliction' that Russell Banks is our greatest American author. Those were my feelings after reading this for the first time, but after my second time through the book my feelings are confirmed. I remember reading `The Sweet Hereafter' (probably Banks' finest... more info
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