Durante décadas, Leonard Fife se ha labrado una prestigiosa reputación como autor de documentales en Canadá, adonde huyó a finales de los años sesenta como desertor y prófugo tras negarse a combatir en Vietnam....
Wade Whitehouse es un protagonista insospechado para una tragedia. Divorciado, bebedor y cada día más frustrado, no desentona entre los escasos vecinos de Lawford, el pequeño pueblo de New Hampshire del que su hermano Rolfe huyó...
When we first meet him, Chappie is a punked-out teenager living with his mother and abusive stepfather in an upstate New York trailer park. During this time, he slips into drugs and petty crime. Rejected by his parents, out of school and in trouble with...
After doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, the Kid is forbidden to live within 2,500 feet of anywhere children might gather. Barely beyond childhood himself, the Kid is in many ways an innocent, trapped by impulses and choices he struggles to...
With The Angel on the Roof, Russell Banks offers readers an astonishing collection of thirty years of his short fiction, revised especially for this volume and highlighted by the inclusion of nine new stories that are among the finest he has ever written....
On probation after doing time for a liaison with an under-age girl, the Kid is forbidden to live within 2500 feet of anywhere children might gather. Enter the Professor. The two men forge a tentative partnership, but then the Professor's past resurfaces...
If Russell Banks (b. 1940) says he doesn't ""think about [his] reader at all when [he's] writing,"" he clearly enjoys talking with his actual readers, whether they be students, writers or academics, delighting in the diversity...