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Banks, Russell
Banks, Russell (1940–), born in Newton, Mass., educated at Colgate and at the University of North Carolina, is a novelist who first had a career as publisher and editor of Lillabulero Press 1966–1975. He published a novel and a book of short stories before achieving national recognition with Continental Drift (1986). This novel moves between two protagonists: Bob Dubois, a New Hampshire oil‐burner repairman who, restless and dissatisfied with his life, moves his family to Florida where he tries to manage his brother's liquor store; and Vanise Dorsinville, a Haitian woman with an infant son who becomes a boat person to emigrate to the U.S. The stories interlock and drift to a fatal intersection. Affliction (1989), set in working‐class New Hampshire, is about friendship, rivalry, and murder. In The Sweet Hereafter (1991), again set in New Hampshire, a woman schoolbus driver is ostracized by the entire community after a bad accident for which she is blamed. Trailerpark (1981) and Success Stories (1986) are short fiction.
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Banks, Russell." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Banks, Russell." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-BanksRussell.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Banks, Russell." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-BanksRussell.html |
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