Affliction

Name: Affliction
Author: Russell Banks Banks

by Russell Banks Banks

Man's spiral into alcoholism and domestic violence in New Hampshire

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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.

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