
Wade whitehouse is an improbable protagonist for a tragedy. 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.
The Sweet Hereafter: A Novel

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Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories Vintage Contemporaries

Together, these 37 stories give us a superb overview of Carver’s life work and show us why he was so widely imitated but never equaled.
Cloudsplitter: A Novel

But within this broader scope, suspenseful, heartbreaking narrative filled with intimate scenes of domestic life, of violence and action in battle, Russell Banks has given us a riveting, of romance and familial life and death that make the reader feel in astonishing ways what it is like to be alive in that time.
. A triumph of the imagination and a masterpiece of modern storytelling, Cloudsplitter is narrated by the enigmatic Owen Brown, last surviving son of America's most famous and still controversial political terrorist and martyr, John Brown.
Rule of the Bone: A Novel

When we first meet him, chappie is a punked-out teenager living with his mother and abusive stepfather in an upstate New York trailer park. He finally settles in an abandoned schoolbus with Rose, a child he rescues from a fast-talking pedophile. Rejected by his parents, he claims for himself a new identity as a permanent outsider; he gets a crossed-bones tattoo on his arm, out of school and in trouble with the police, and takes the name "Bone.
He finds dangerous refuge with a group of biker-thieves, and then hides in the boarded-up summer house of a professor and his wife.
Trailerpark

. 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.
The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Michiko kakutani, the new York Times “Rich with a sense of discovery. The orphan master’s Son has an early lead on novel of the year. The daily beast “This is a novel worth getting excited about. The washington post “a ripping piece of fiction that is also an astute commentary on the nature of freedom, sacrifice, and glory.
Elle. He becomes a professional kidnapper who must navigate the shifting rules, arbitrary violence, and baffling demands of his overlords in order to stay alive. The pulitzer prize–winning, new york Times betselling novel of North Korea: an epic journey into the heart of the world’s most mysterious dictatorship.
Driven to the absolute limit of what any human being could endure, a legendary actress “so pure, Sun Moon, he boldly takes on the treacherous role of rival to Kim Jong Il in an attempt to save the woman he loves, she didn’t know what starving people looked like. Part breathless thriller, part story of innocence lost, corruption, stolen moments of beauty, and casual cruelty but also camaraderie, part story of romantic love, The Orphan Master’s Son is also a riveting portrait of a world heretofore hidden from view: a North Korea rife with hunger, and love.
Lost Memory of Skin

Long one of our most acute and insightful novelists, Russell Banks often examines the indistinct boundaries between our intentions and actions. The two men forge a tentative partnership, the Kid remaining wary of the Professor’s motives even as he accepts the counsel and financial assistance of the older man.
When the camp beneath the causeway is raided by the police, when a hurricane all but destroys the settlement, and understanding, the Professor tries to help the Kid in practical matters while trying to teach his young charge new ways of looking at, and later, what he has done. Enter the professor, a man who has built his own life on secrets and lies.
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 resultsSuspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, the young man at the center of Russell Banks’s uncompromising and morally complex new novel must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration.
Known in his new identity only as the kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, he is shackled to a GPS monitoring device and forbidden to live within 2, 500 feet of anywhere children might gather. With nowhere else to go, the Kid takes up residence under a south Florida causeway, in a makeshift encampment with other convicted sex offenders.
Barely beyond childhood himself, is in many ways an innocent, the Kid, despite his crime, trapped by impulses and foolish choices he himself struggles to comprehend.
All the King's Men

The Reserve: A Novel P.S.

Moving from the secluded beauty of the adirondack wilderness to the skies above war-torn Spain and Fascist Germany, incisive, The Reserve is a clever, and passionately romantic novel of suspense that adds a new dimension to this acclaimed author's extraordinary repertoire. Twice married, vanessa has been scandalously linked to any number of rich and famous men.
But on the night of july 4, 1936, and a mysteriously seductive local artist, jordan groves, two events coincide to permanently alter the course of Vanessa's callow life: her father dies suddenly of a heart attack, at her parents' country home in a remote Adirondack Mountain enclave known as The Reserve, blithely lands his Waco biplane in the pristine waters of the forbidden Upper Lake.
Part love story, love, art, part murder mystery, trapped at opposite ends of a social divide, set on the cusp of the Second World War, and madness—and explores what happens when two powerful personalities, politics, Russell Banks's sharp-witted and deeply engaging new novel raises dangerous questions about class, begin to break the rules.
Twenty-nine-year-old vanessa cole is a wild, stunningly beautiful heiress, the adopted only child of a highly regarded New York brain surgeon and his socialite wife. He falls easy prey to her electrifying personality, but it is not long before he discovers that the heiress carries a dark, deeply scarring family secret.