| Affliction Contributor(s): Banks, Russell (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060920076 ISBN-13: 9780060920074 Publisher: Ecco Press OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1990 Annotation: Wade Whitehouse is an unlikely protagonist of a tragedy. Wade looms in one's mind as a bluecollar American Everyman afflicted by the dark secret of the macho tradition, his tale told by his articulate, equally-scarred younger brother. "Part thriller, part psychological study, part indictment of the American way of violence."...--Newsday. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Science Fiction - Time Travel |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 89045075 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.3" W x 8.1" (0.62 lbs) 368 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - New England - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - New Hampshire |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 blue-collar American Everyman afflicted by the dark secret of the macho tradition. Told by his articulate, equally scarred younger brother, Wade's story becomes as spellbinding and inexorable as a fuse burning its way to the dynamite. |
Contributor Bio(s): Banks, Russell: - Russell Banks, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, is 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 has received numerous prizes and awards, including the Common Wealth Award for Literature. He lives in upstate New York and Miami, Florida.
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