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Affliction

Russell Banks

Paperback | Pages: 368 pages

Rating: 3.99 | 3284 Users | 226 Reviews

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Title	:	Affliction
Author	:	Russell Banks
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 368 pages
Published	:	September 26th 1990 by Harper Perennial (first published September 9th 1989)
Categories	:	Fiction. Novels. Literature. Contemporary. Literary Fiction

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Wade 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' 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.

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Original Title:	Affliction
ISBN:	0060920076 (ISBN13: 9780060920074)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (1990)

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Ratings: 3.99 From 3284 Users | 226 Reviews

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I liked this book. But I was quite shocked to come across this passage from a book written in 1989 (bold and censoring mine):"'Maybe we could sneak that through the budget next town meeting, a new car for Wade Whitehouse. Get you a full-sized Olds or something, or a Bronco, not one of them little K-cars that f*cking Lee Iacocca makes. That guy gets to me, you know?' he went on, swiveling his chair around and swinging his legs up onto the desktop. 'First he goes broke, then he gets the taxpayers

Some of the most beautiful writing I've read, on what it means to be human. I picked it up to examine its unusual point of view--the story is told by the protagonist's brother, not actually present for the events. Also admired its use of setting. The book moves slowly, in the way literary fiction often does, but the rewards are rich characters and a true world.

First of all, Russell Banks, thank you for your style. I had not read you before, and showing a masterful style is the first standard for my admission into the fan club of any novelist. Your style is intelligent, fluid, and rich. It is art. It is not USA Today, or even NY Times, not vanilla. Some readers who do not delight in its uniqueness will find it a rough go. Let 'em go.This book should be required reading in high schools and colleges. I can think of no more relevant lesson than this, the

Picked this one off the shelves last night in a turn back to more serious stuff. New England family/alcoholic dysfunction. Sounds like Richard Russo w/o the laughs. Andre' Dubus territory ... This was made into a film a few years ago with Nick Nolte and James Coburn. My other Russell Banks read was "Continental Drift," and I wound up dissatisfied with that one. One more chance for Mr. Banks ...I'll get deeper into this tonight. So far RB is doing a fine job of describing the dead-end town that

An incredible novel, Affliction is a gorgeous work of prose that outlines the steady decline and unraveling of one man in the face of a standard rubric of a modern American cycle of destruction. The writing is spellbinding, moving through the atmosphere and small New Hampshire community like a camera darting about and focusing on its inhabitants and our main protagonist freely as our narrator (his brother) pieces together the final moments of his life. The story is at times a simple mystery,

This is a dark, disturbing book but so compelling. Wade Whitehouse is caught up in a maelstrom of violence and self-destruction that is certain to end in a horrific last stand. The story is told with great care by his younger brother and is set in a New Hampshire town in the midst of a shrill winter. Banks once again holds me in the spell of his masterful prose.

I am overwhelmed with awe at the perfection of this book. It is set just a few miles from my childhood home, with characters so finely drawn that I could see and hear them, though admittedly I am already familiar with this particular population. This concept of a life balanced on the fulcrum of time and circumstance is one that I agree with wholeheartedly. Watching this particular life as it sways and teeters, as a few random events, assumptions and reactions tip it over in a dizzying and