Affliction

von Russell Banks

370 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

"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"A masterwork of contemporary American fiction" (Chicago Tribune) from one of the most acclaimed and important writers of our timeWade 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's 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.

• Reihe: Ecco Press
• ISBN: 9780060920074
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.04.2024
• Größe: 203 x 133 mm
• Verlag: HarperCollins