The Reserve (P.S.) - Softcover

Banks, Russell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061430269 ISBN 13: 9780061430268

Publisher: Ecco Press, 2009

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub the Date: February. 2009 of Pages: 320 in Publisher: Harper In this compelling novel-a cross between Lady Chatterley's Lover and of The Aviator-the acclaimed modern the master takes us to riveting new territory. Part love story. Part murder mystery. Russell Banks's The Reserve is as gripping as it is beautifully written. set in a pre-WWII world of class. politics. art. love and madness. Vanessa Cole is a stunningly beautiful and wild heiress. her parents' adopted only daughter. Twice-married . she has been scandalously linked to rich and famous men. On the night of July 4. 1936. inside the Cole family's remote Adirondack Mountain enclave. known as the Reserve. Vanessa will lose her father to a heart attack-and meet Jordan Groves. a seductively carefree local artist whose leftist political loyalties to his working class neighbours are undercut by his wealth and...

About this title

Product Description:

Part love story, part murder mystery, set on the cusp of the Second World War, Russell Banks's sharp-witted and deeply engaging new novel raises dangerous questions about class, politics, art, love, and madness--and explores what happens when two powerful personalities, trapped at opposite ends of a social divide, begin to break the rules. Moving from the secluded beauty of the Adirondack wilderness to the skies above war-torn Spain and Fascist Germany, The Reserve is a clever, incisive, and passionately romantic novel of suspense that adds a new dimension to this acclaimed author's extraordinary repertoire.

Review:

"A master storyteller." - "The Nation
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"Of the many writers working in the great tradition today, one of the best is Russell Banks." - "New York Times Book Review"
"Banks knows how to keep the reader glued to the page." - "Edmonton Journal"
"Russell Banks [is] one of America's most elegant literary voices." - "The Vancouver Sun"

"From the Hardcover edition."

"Banks's willingness to confront. the hard truths about the world we live in. goes a long way toward explaining his longstanding reputation as one of America's finest contemporary fiction writers." -- Boston Globe

."..sexy, almost guilty pleasure of a read..." -- Elle Magazine

"Banks ranks among our boldest artists." -- Boston Globe

"Banks's willingness to confront... the hard truths about the world we live in... goes a long way toward explaining his longstanding reputation as one of America's finest contemporary fiction writers."--Boston Globe

."..sexy, almost guilty pleasure of a read..."--Elle Magazine

"A cool noir thriller...This is new and wonderful turf for this masterful storyteller."--William Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed and Roscoe

"Like our living literary giants Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon, Russell Banks is a great writer wrestling with the hidden secrets and explosive realities of this country."--Cornel West

."..[Russell Banks] carved out a reputation with words, bu producing some of the best fiction of our time."--Miami Herald

"As a love letter to the mountains and greenery and water, [The Reserve] conveys deep feeling."--Chicago Sun-Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0061430269
• ISBN 13: 9780061430268
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320