Description
Title: Success Stories
Author: Russell Banks
ISBN: 9780060927196
Publisher: Ecco
Published: 1996
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 208
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher : In “Success Stories, ” an exceptionally varied yet coherent collection, Russell Banks proves himself one of the most astute and forcerful writers in America today. “Queen for a Day, ” “Success Story, ” and “Adultery” trace the fortunes of the Painter family in their pursuit of and retreat from the American dream. Banks also explore the ethos of rampiant materialism in a group of contemporary moral fables. “The Fish” is an evocative parable of faith and greed set in a Southeast Asian village, “The Gully” tells of the profitability of violence and the ironies of upward mobility in a Latin American shantytown, and “Children’s Story” explores the repressed rage and boils beneath the surface of relationships between parents and children and between citizens of the first and third worlds.
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