Affliction - Hardcover

Banks, Russell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060161426 ISBN 13: 9780060161422

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1989

Synopsis

A gentle man, the victim of a violent father, is made violent himself by a fellow cop whom he suspects of murdering a local labor official, and an ex-wife who limits contact with their daughter

About this title

Review:

"Magnificently convincing . . . beautifully sustained, suspenseful."-- "New York Times Book Review""Banks has taken on a profound theme, the ruinous and awful affliction of violence that seems to live like a secret blood-disease handed down in men like Wade....He turns it into a living art that can bring recognition and awe."-- "Los Angeles Book Review""Russell Banks is a writer of extraordinary power."-- Gail Caldwell, "Boston Globe""A compelling portrait of a man...at once moving and disturbing."-- Michiko Kakutani, "New York Times"

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0060161426
• ISBN 13: 9780060161422
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1