Lost memory of skin - Brossura

Banks, Russell

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0061857645 ISBN 13: 9780061857645

Casa editrice: Harper USA, 2012

Riassunto

Taking up residence with other convicted sex offenders, the Kid, on probation after doing time for an affair with an underage girl, forms a tentative partnership with the Professor, a university sociologist who finds him the perfect subject for his research, until he is faced with a new kind of moral decision. Reprint.

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“Destined to be a canonical novel of its time... it delivers another of Banks’s wrenching, panoramic visions of American moral life, and this one very particular to the early 21st century... Banks, whose great works resonate with such heart and soul, brings his full narrative powers to bear.” (Janet Maslin, New York Times)

“Banks may be the most compassionate fiction writer working today... Lost Memory of Skin is proof that Banks remains our premier chronicler of the doomed and forgotten American Male.” (New York Times Book Review)

“Banks’s enormous gamble in both plot and character pays off handsomely...By the end, Kafka is rubbing elbows with Robert Ludlum, and Banks has mounted a thrilling defense of the novel’s place in contemporary culture.” (The New Yorker)

“One of our finest novelists gives voice to the unspeakable...[A] compelling story” (O, the Oprah Magazine)

“His boldest imaginative leap yet into the invisible margins of society... Lost Memory of Skin is a haunting book.” (Wall Street Journal)

“Among contemporary writers giving voice to America’s beleaguered working class, Russell Banks may have no peer...this oddly unsettling, beautifully crafted novel...raise[s] fascinating issues.” (San Francisco Chronicle)

“Banks reveals the two [characters] with tenderness and trenchant wit, in a story that, not surprisingly, plumbs the depth of human despair and resilience. If that prowess is predictable, Skin is bound to leave you shaken and strangely reassured.” (USA Today)

“Mr. Banks knows plot, and incorporates intriguing complications to keep the novel building power all the way to the end.” (Pittsburg Post-Gazette)

“Russell Banks really does know how to pull his readers into a dark, dark world only to deliver us into the light.” (Boston Globe)

“Banks is in top form in his seventeenth work of fiction, a cyclonic novel of arresting observations, muscular beauty, and disquieting concerns... a commanding, intrepidly inquisitive, magnificently compassionate, and darkly funny novel of private and societal illusions, maladies, and truths.” (Booklist (starred review))

L'autore:

Russell Banks, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, is one of America’s most prestigious fiction writers, a past president of the International Parliament of Writers, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been translated into twenty languages and has received numerous prizes and awards, including the Common Wealth Award for Literature. He lives in upstate New York and Miami, Florida.

 

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• Editore: Harper USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0061857645
• ISBN 13: 9780061857645
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 416