Banks, Russell

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American Spirits

Banks’s stories are about fragile, everyday people whom, despite their resilience and strength, life still manages to break. An imaginatively constructed novel from a late master storyteller.
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The Magic Kingdom

This audio will appeal to listeners seeking a complex, character-driven coming-of-age historical fiction about belonging and betrayal. Recommended for fans of William Kent Krueger, Ann Patchett, and Jonathan Franzen.
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The Magic Kingdom

The narrative moves slowly, but copious detail of Shaker life and the philosophy of utopian communities that have largely disappeared from the American landscape, are well depicted. Well-researched historical fiction from a skilled novelist.
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Voyager: Travel Writings

Banks puts the literature back in travel writing in this extremely well-crafted book.
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A Permanent Member of the Family

In this remarkably affecting collection, Banks introduces readers to a wide range of personalities and hardships and very few triumphs. An elegant and incisive writer, Banks continues to deliver stories full of surprise and contradictory elements. [See Prepub Alert, 5/20/13.]
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Lost Memory of Skin

Multiaward winner Banks (Affliction) has written a disturbing contemporary novel that feels biblical in its examination of good and evil, penance and salvation, while issuing a cri de coeur for penal reform. The graphic language may be off-putting for some but necessarily advances the theme of illusion vs. reality in the digital world. [See Prepub Alert, 4/18/11.]
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