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A Permanent Member of the Family by Russell Banks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
One of America's most prestigious writers, Russell Banks is a literary icon whose works probe the deepest recesses of American life. His profound and resonant stories of the lives of ordinary Americans have appeared regularly in anthologies and collections, including The Best American Short Stories. Rem ...Show more
Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Owen Brown is the last surviving son of America's most famous political terrorist, John Brown, who in 1859 raided the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, intending to galvanise the Southern slaves into rebellion. Now Owen tells John's story. This incredible novel recreates pre-Civil War America, ...Show more
Continental Drift by Russell Banks
$28.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S.
A powerful literary classic from one of contemporary fiction's most acclaimed and important writers, Russell Banks's Continental Drift is a masterful novel of hope lost and gained, and a gripping, indelible story of fragile lives uprooted and transformed by injustice, disappointment, and the seductions ...Show more
DREAMING UP AMERICA by BANKS RUSSELL
$28.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Foregone by Russell Banks
$27.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
At the centre of Foregone is famed Canadian American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Fife, now in his late seventies, is dying of cancer in Montreal and has agreed to a final interview in which ...Show more
Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A mature and masterful work of contemporary fiction from a great American writer. Suspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, a young man must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, h ...Show more
Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It is a mature and masterful work of contemporary fiction from a great American writer. Suspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, a young man must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage g ...Show more
Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Bone is a punked-out teenager, living in a trailer with his alcoholic mother and abusive stepfather. Rejected by his parents, out of school and in trouble with the police, he's now into drugs and shoplifting as he drifts though dope squats and shopping malls. Until, breaking away from a group of biker t ...Show more
The Darling by Russell Banks
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Hannah Musgrave has left her family in Liberia during the civil war - now she must return and confront her ghosts. Hannah Musgrave - enigmatic, tough, middle aged - has lived many lives. A member of the terrorist group, The Weathermen in the 60s, she was once a hardened radical, both sexually and politi ...Show more
The Reserve by Russell Banks
$23.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: Adult
July, 1936. Vanessa Cole, notorious for her scandalous affairs with the rich and famous, has returned to her parents' home after the collapse of her second marriage. Rumours are rife as the family gathers to celebrate the 4th of July at the Adirondack Camp deep in their privately-owned wilderness, The R ...Show more
The Reserve by Russell Banks
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
It is July, 1936, and it is the height of the Depression, and the looming threat of Fascism is spreading across Europe. And somewhere high above the Adirondack mountains, beautiful and doomed, floats the vast Hindenburg airship. Vanessa Cole is the stunning debutante daughter of the famous brain surgeon ...Show more
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