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Lost Memory of Skin

Lost Memory of Skin( )
Author: Banks, Russell
ISBN:978-0-06-185764-5
Publication Date:Jul 2012
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:Ecco
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $14.99
Book Description:

“Like our living literary giants Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon, Russell Banks is a great writer wrestling with the hidden secrets and explosive realities of this country.” —Cornel West

“Of the many writers working in the great tradition today, one of the best is Russell Banks.” —New York Times

Lost Memory of Skin is a provocative novel of spiritual and moral redemption from Russell Banks, the author of Affliction, Rule...
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Book Details
Pages:432
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Friendship
Fiction / Southern
Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.31 x 8 x 0.97 Inches
Book Weight:0.7 Pounds
Author Biography
Banks, Russell (Author)
The oldest of four children, Russell Banks spent his childhood and adolescence in New Hampshire and Eastern Massachusetts. His blue-collar, working-class background is strongly reflected in his writing.

The first in his family to attend college, Banks studied at Colgate University and later graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill. While he was establishing himself as a writer, Banks spent time as a plumber, shoe salesman, and a window dresser.

He wrote 21 books of fiction and nonfiction. Banks's titles include Searching for Survivors, Family Life, Hamilton Stark, The New World, The Book of Jamaica, Trailerpark, The Relation of My Imprisonment, Continental Drift, Success Stories, Affliction, The Sweet Hereafter and Dreaming Up America. Banks has also written numerous poems, stories, and essays. His last novel was The Magic Kingdom was published in November 2022.

Banks is the recipient of several awards and prizes. Among his accolades are the St. Lawrence Award for Short Fiction, the John Dos Passos Award, and the Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1986, Continental Drift was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

Russell Banks died on January 7, 2023, at his home in upstate New York. He was 82.

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