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A Permanent Member of the Family

Name: A Permanent Member of the Family
Author: Russell Banks

Russell Banks

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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. Reminiscent of Don DeLillo and Raymond Carver, this collection of twelve short works showcases a master at the peak of his intuitive powers. As he did in his haunting, classic works The Sweet Hereafter, Rule of the Bone and Lost Memory of Skin, Banks explores provocative themes with pathos and sharp insight. Each of the stories in this powerful collection demonstrates the range of his narrative virtuosity and a startlingly panoramic vision of humanity which recalls the moral sweep of John Steinbeck's writing. A Permanent Member of the Family is a stunning addition to the canon of a writer 'whose great works resonate with such heart and soul' ( New York Times).

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s hard to resist the power of such clear and bracingly honest writing.
It'

s work presents without falsehood and with tough affection the uncompromising moral voice of our time ... I trust his portraits of America more than any other - the burden of it, the need for it, the hell of it.
Russell Banks'

Russell Banks tackles hard subjects with verve and courage

s beleaguered working class, Russell Banks may have no peer ... [a] beautifully crafted novel
Among contemporary writers giving voice to America'

Each story has the ripe, full-blooded power of a vintage William Trevor tale...A short story collection that ranks highly among the books we have read this year - and a short story collection that might well be the short story collection of 2013

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.
Destined to be a canonical novel of its time ... it delivers another of Banks'

s place in contemporary culture.
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'

Of the many writers working in the great tradition today, one of the best is Russell Banks

s hard to shake it off. And even when you do, it leaves a mark.
A compelling story ... one of those rare, strange, category-defying fictions that grabs hold of you ... It'

. Praise for The Lost Memory of Skin: Electrifying

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.

Russell takes all his characters and his stories in such unexpected directions that we start to see loss in a different way.

Banks is one of those precious writers like Twain or Salinger who creates a voice so wonderfully real that the experience of reading them is like a conversation with an old friend

s broken criminal justice system ... Banks, in his latest novel, takes an unflinching look at people at their worst and manages to turn it into art.
Lost Memory of Skin should be required reading for anyone interested in fixing the country'

s an emotional weight that pervades the collection.
Banks is excellent at imbuing short sentences with real heft, and there'

Banks remains a master.

s time you acquired the habit
If you've never read Russell Banks it'

s greatest writers
One of America'

A living master at the height of his powers.

Russell Banks really does know how to pull his readers into a dark, dark world only to deliver us into the light.

Banks is a master of peeling back the veneer to show us for the desperate creatures we are, no more so than in his fearless Lost Memory of Skin...[Banks] writes here with a combination of compassion and outrage ... a compelling read and an indictment of our age.

His boldest imaginative leap yet into the invisible margins of society ... Lost Memory of Skin is a haunting book.

This is a collection to shout about. It is one of the best books published this year... Exactly how good a writer is Russell Banks? How about wonderful?

t see as often as we should: down on its luck, but sympathetic and dignified.
These stories show us an America we don'

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