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Title: The Angel on the Roof : The Stories of Russell Banks by Russell Banks ISBN: 0-06-093125-6 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 24 April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Memorable Collection
Comment: Russell Banks knows how to tell a story. He can vary his technique from intimate to grand scale and can interchange voices so you're never sure whether he is writing autobiography or pure fiction. In ANGEL ON THE ROOF he gives us stories that span a long period of his output and while each of the stories stands on its own (at times even in a short 5 or 6 pages)there is enough linkage or afterthoughts that somehow tie this collection together. Yes, the stories are intensely interesting individually and do continue to show Banks' feelings about the alienation and abuse of parent-child relationships, and people in general, and yes they can be read individually as a bedside book for finding somnolence. But to stop reading these collected stories as a book would rob the reader of the tangents that make for enhancing the experince as a novel. For sheer clarity of line, pungent descriptions of the quality of air/space/cold/skies etc Banks is as good as contemporary writers get. This is a richly rewarding book on so many levels that it clearly belongs in every library...with frequent easy access!
Rating: 4
Summary: Spotlight on a short-story master
Comment: Russell Banks isn't a household name in American letters, and what fame he's scratched together as an author has come from powerful novels such as "Affliction" and "Cloudsplitter." But, like Hemingway, Banks is best (and feels most free) when he writes short, and a new compilation might finally give him his due as a short-story writer.
"Angel on the Roof" is a literary album of Banks's greatest hits, 31 examples of what he calls "the best work I have done in the form over the thirty-seven years since I began trying to write." Twenty-two of the stories first appeared in four lesser-known collections between 1975 and 1986; of the nine more recent stories, six have only been published in magazines such as Esquire and newspaper literary supplements. More importantly, Banks has freely revised many of the old stories, so even his most ardent fans can expect to see something new.
His stories are elegantly postmodern, beautiful and striking, full of diverse voices and disquietingly vulgar settings. Some are only a few pages long; others go deeper and longer. But many of his stories, though sometimes suffocatingly bleak, are also capable of poignant humor and broad satire.
Perhaps the renaissance of the short story that finally elevates Banks to his proper place among American writers. He ranks with John Cheever as one of the masters of the contemporary form, if not in name-recognition.
Rating: 5
Summary: This book will grab you immediately.
Comment: I'm not much of a reader, but after someone read me one of the short stories in this book, I had to get it. It's great. The plots are fascinating, the characters believable, and many of the stories will make your jaw drop. Each story left me wanting to read the one after it! I couldn't put this book down until I finished it.
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Title: Trailerpark by Russell Banks ISBN: 006097706X Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 19 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Cloudsplitter : A Novel by Russell Banks ISBN: 0060930861 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Sweet Hereafter Movie Tie-In : A Novel by Russell Banks ISBN: 0060923245 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 05 August, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Continental Drift by Russell Banks ISBN: 0060956739 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Affliction by Russell Banks ISBN: 0060920076 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 26 September, 1990 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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