Russell Banks Banks
Russell Banks was a New Hampshire-born novelist who wrote with devastating empathy about the white working class of the American North, and about the damage done by slavery and poverty in the Caribbean. Affliction and Continental Drift are his finest novels.
Works
- Continental DriftHaitian immigrant's tragic journey northward amid climate and cultural displacement
- AfflictionMan's spiral into alcoholism and domestic violence in New Hampshire
- The Sweet HereafterSchool bus tragedy's aftermath devastates small community and grieving families
- Rule of the BoneTeenage runaway from dysfunctional family searches for belonging
- CloudsplitterJohn Brown's raid explores American violence and abolitionist fervor