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1	Rule of the bone more books like this by Russell Banks In Russell Banks's bleak and compelling novel, Chappie is a punky teenager living with his mother and abusive stepfather in a trailer park. He falls in with a group of bikers and thieves, finally settling down in an abandoned schoolbus with a girl he rescues from a pedophile. There he changes his name to Bone and, eventually, meets an illegal ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Affliction more books like this by Russell Banks This work of small-town realism is the story of Wade Whitehouse, a born-to-lose, middle-aged blue-collar resident of a bleak New Hampshire community like the one in which Russell Banks grew up. The story of Wade's abusive father, Wade's hopeless marriage and attempts to be a father to his daughter, and his obsession with the death in a hunting ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Sweet Hereafter Movie Tie-In more books like this by Russell Banks, Arturo Patten A brilliant and powerful novel from the critically acclaimed author of Continental Drift that explores a small town's response to the inexplicable loss of its children in a school bus accident. "A novel of compelling moral suspense. . . ".--Los Angeles Times Book Review. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.75! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Darling more books like this by Russell Banks Russell Banks's life of Hannah Musgrave, a fictional Weather Underground member takes her, ultimately, to Africa, where she marries a Liberian official, gives birth to three sons, and works with chimpanzees. After a series of tumultuous events in the wake of the unseating of the country's president, Hannah finds herself again in America--the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Sweet Hereafter more books like this by Russell Banks The story of a tragic accident involving a school bus full of children is told by four people: the driver, a father, a lawyer, and one of the children who survived. Their versions of the event add up to a complex portrait of a close-knit small-town society. THE SWEET HEREAFTER was made into an acclaimed film in 1997, starring Ian Holm, by the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Cloudsplitter more books like this by Russell Banks This thoroughly researched novel is Russell Banks's take on John Brown, who raided the federal arsenal in Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in 1859 in an attempt to start a slave rebellion. Told from the point of view of Owen, the only one remaining of Brown's 20 children (by two wives), this is a complex portrait of a fiercely committed abolitionist who ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.96! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Rule of the bone : a novel. more books like this by Russell Banks Written in the tradition of such classics as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Catcher in the Rye, Banks' astonishing new novel tells the story of a homeless youth living on the edge of society--a lost boy who maps the cruel world that surrounds him with motherwit, humor, and appalling honesty. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Continental Drift more books like this by Russell Banks Banks's ambitious novel tells two parallel and interlocking stories. Bob Dubois is a New Hampshire oil-burner repairman who hopes to start over in Florida, where his brother has promised him a good job in his liquor store. He and his family move there-and, after a violent robbery at the store, Dubois very quickly loses any semblance of control ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Trailerpark more books like this by Russell Banks These bleakly comic short stories are about the inhabitants--a guinea-pig farmer, a drug dealer, a madwoman--of Granite State Trailerpark outside the mill town of Catamount, N.H. They include "The Guinea Pig Lady," "Cleaving, and Other Needs," "What Noni Hubner Did Not Tell the Police About Jesus," and "The Child Screams and Looks Back at You." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Reserve more books like this by Russell Banks Part love story, part murder mystery, Banks' remarkable novel engages quest ions of class, politics, art, love, and madness. see all copies from $4.12! new only from $12.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Angel on the Roof: The Stories of more books like this by Russell Banks Acclaimed for his novels, Russell Banks is also an accomplished writer of compelling and lyrical short stories. This is a selection of his work over 20 years: 31 stories, most of them previously published, including "Djinn," "Assisted Living," "Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story," and "The Lie." Many of the stories here take place in a particularly ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Success Stories more books like this by Russell Banks A short-story collection about America in the late 20th century. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.85! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks more books like this by Russell Banks A collection of short fiction stories spanning the last 30 years from award-winning author Russell Banks. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $4.14! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Book of Jamaica more books like this by Russell Banks A white college teacher (nameless) from New Hampshire with an obsession for Jamaican culture travels to the island to write a novel. Once there, however, he becomes immersed in the place and begins to neglect his work for the fascinations of the people. He also neglects his family, who desert him, leaving him alone to pursue his passions. In the ... see all copies from $2.10! new only from $3.74! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Hamilton Stark more books like this by Russell Banks Hamilton Stark is a misanthropic New Hampshire drunk who rejects all human contact. Married five times, he has a vindictive daughter whose hatred of her father is intense--for many good reasons. Stark's elusive life story is narrated by an unnamed novelist who is in love with Stark's daughter. As the writer tells the story of a cold and bitter man ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Invisible Stranger: The Patten, Maine, Photographs of Arturo Patten more books like this by Russell Banks, Arturo Patten This title is both a collection of photographs by Arturo Patten and a collaborative project with novelist Russell Banks. The two met in Patten's upstate New York home to view the photographer's images of the residents of Patten, Maine, which hauntingly evoke Banks's fictional characters. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Family Life more books like this by Russell Banks In family Life, Russell Banks's first novel, he transforms the dramas of domesticity into the story of a royal family in a mythical contemporary kingdom. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.30! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Beneath the Roses more books like this by Gregory Crewdson (Photographer), Russell Banks Crewdson's photographs portray emotionally charged moments of seemingly ordinary individuals caught in ambiguous and often disquieting circumstances. Both epic in scale and intimate in scope, these visually breathtaking photographs blur the distinctions between cinema and photography. see all copies from $36.00! new only from $36.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Contemporary Fiction 50 Short Stories Since 1970 (Edited By Lex Williford and Michael Martone, Introduction By Rosellen Brown) by Sherman; Atwood Alexie, Margaret; Bambara, Toni Cade; Banks, Russell; Barth, John; Barthelme, Donald; Bass, Rick; Bausch,... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.78! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Relation of My Imprisonment: A Fiction more books like this by Russell Banks, Arturo Patten Russell Banks's allegorical novel about a coffin-maker was first published in 1984. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
21	Brick Reader: Writers on Writing more books like this by Linda Spalding, Michael Ondaatje (Editor), Russell Banks (Introduction by) see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.52! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Gringos and other stories more books like this by Michael Rumaker Gringos and Other Stories contains the complete Grove Press edition originally published in 1967 as well as six additional stories of the period. Also included in this edition are Rumakers essay, "The Use of the Unconscious in Writing," an Introduction by Russell Banks, and an Afterword by Robert Creeley. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23	The Relation of My Imprisonment more books like this by Russell Banks Russell Banks's allegorical novel about a coffin-maker was first published in 1984. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
24	Searching for survivors more books like this by Russell Banks see all copies from $2.20! signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	The Darling CD more books like this by Russell Banks, Mary Beth Hurt (Read by) A major new novel from the author of "The Sweet Hereafter" follows an American woman in Liberia and her struggle to save endangered chimpanzees amidst the violence of civil unrest. Unabridged. 10 CDs. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS

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