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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionseBook editionsThe Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banksby Russell Banks
Synopses & ReviewsFrom Powells.com: Russell
Banks has had an esteemed career as a novelist, receiving critical acclaim
for such titles as Cloudsplitter and Continental Drift – both finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Two of his
novels have been made into films (Affliction
and Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix winner The Sweet Hereafter), and two more are currently in development. This should
come as no surprise, considering his strong grasp of character and gripping
narrative structure, which translate smoothly and with psychological resonance
to the screen. The Angel on the Roof, however, is the culmination of
Banks's parallel career as a short story writer. For this volume he revised
a number of his older stories and also included nine stories not previously
published. Banks has said of the short story form: "It invites me...to behave
on the page in a way that is more reckless, more sharply painful, and more broadly
comic than is allowed by the steady, slow, bourgeois respectability of the novel."
Ranging geographically from Africa to Jamaica to small town New England, these
stories also span emotional states, veering from poignantly small acts of grace
to heart wrenching tragedy. Georgie, Powells.com Synopsis:Broad in scope and rich in imagination, this new collection by the author of "Affliction" and "The Sweet Hereafter" includes the best of his previous anthologies, newly revised, plus nine new short stories. Table of Contents
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