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The Darling is Hannah Musgrave's story, told emotionally and convincingly years later by Hannah herself. A political radical and member of the Weather Underground, Hannah has fled America to West Africa, where she and her Liberian husband become friends and colleagues of Charles Taylor, the...

""A truly excellent novel. . . . The morbidly fascinating little twists of human existence are all here: love, sex, life and death, beauty and horror—the works."" — Chicago Sun-Times In The Book of Jamaica, Russell Banks explores the complexities of political life in the Caribbean and its...

Des électeurs de Trump et des armes, des situations qui dérapent, échappent aux protagonistes et font la une du journal local, trois histoires de famille et de voisins, une montée en puissance exceptionnelle à mesure que la tension grimpe : voilà les ingrédients de cet opus final, qui frappe par la finesse des profils dessinés et l'art de la nuance. Palpitant, haletant et d'une remarquable maîtrise, American Spirits explore les hostilités souterraines qui minent les communautés rurales américaines, ainsi que les dérives de la politique nationale.

“Banks has skillfully used his repertoire of contemporary techniques to write a novel that is classically American—a dark, but sometimes funny, romance with echoes of Poe and Melville.” — Washington Post ""A marvelously written little book, fascinatingly intricate, yet deceptively simple...

"Drei Erzählungen" ist der dritte Teil der "DREI"-Trilogie. Oliver Rohrbeck, Jens Wawrczeck und Andreas Fröhlich lesen Geschichten über die Liebe – von Sophie Dahl, Russell Banks und O. Henry. Nachdem das Trio bereits Gruselgeschichten und Märchen in Form von inszenierten Lesungen veröffentlichte, erscheint mit "Drei Erzählungen über die Liebe" der letzte Teil der Hör-Trilogie mit den Sprechern der Kult-Hörspielserie "Die drei ???".

From one of America’s most beloved storytellers: a dazzling tapestry of love and faith, memory and imagination that questions what it means to look back and accept one’s place in history. In 1971, Harley Mann revisits his childhood, recounting his family's move to Florida’s...

From one of America’s most celebrated storytellers come three dark, interlocking tales about the residents of a rural New York town, and the shocking headlines that become their local mythologies. A husband sells property to a mysterious, temperamental stranger, and is hounded on social media...

Russell Banks, Garrison Keillor, and Dave Isay are among those heard on Chatting Up a Storm, Vol. 1, a distillation of the best broadcast interviews by journalist Claudia Cragg, with thinkers, authors, and change-makers from the United States and around the world.

"Drei Erzählungen" ist der dritte Teil der "DREI"-Trilogie. Oliver Rohrbeck, Jens Wawrczeck und Andreas Fröhlich (Sprecher der "Drei ???") lesen Geschichten über die Liebe - von Sophie Dahl, Russell Banks und O. Henry.

Hamilton Stark is a New Hampshire pipe fitter and the sole inhabitant of the house from which he evicted his own mother. He is the villain of five marriages and the father of a daughter so obsessed that she has been writing a book about him for years. Hamilton Stark is a boor, a misanthrope, a...

In Family Life, Russell Banks's first novel, he transforms the dramas of domesticity into the story of a royal family in a mythical contemporary kingdom. Life inside this kingdom includes the king (dubbed "the Hearty" or "the Bluff"), who squeals angrily as is his wont; the queen, who, while...