Lost Memory of Skin: A Novel
by Russell Banks
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0061857637
- ISBN 13
- 9780061857638
- Seller
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Lewisville, Texas, United States
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About This Item
"Like our living literary giants Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon, Russell Banks is a great writer wrestling with the hidden secrets and explosive realities of this country."
—Cornel West
"Of the many writers working in the great tradition today, one of the best is Russell Banks."
—New York Times
Lost Memory of Skin is a provocative novel of spiritual and moral redemption from Russell Banks, the author of Affliction, Rule of the Bone, Continental Drift, Cloudsplitter, and other acclaimed masterworks of contemporary American fiction. Uncompromising and complex, Lost Memory of Skin is the story of The Kid, a young sex offender recently released from prison and forced to live beneath a South Florida causeway. When The Professor, a man of enormous intellect and appetite, takes The Kid under his wing, his own startling past will cause upheavals in both of their worlds. At once lyrical, witty, and disturbing, Banks's extraordinary novel showcases his abilities as a world-class storyteller as well as his incisive understanding of the dangerous contradictions and hypocrisies of modern American society.
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Synopsis
RUSSELL BANKS has received numerous prizes and awards for his work, including the O. Henry and Best American Short Story Awards, the John Dos Passos Prize, and the Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in upstate New York.
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- Bookseller
- Sun-Rae Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1066
- Title
- Lost Memory of Skin: A Novel
- Author
- Russell Banks
- Format/Binding
- Book shows minimal ware to cover, scratches, may have markings inside.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0061857637
- ISBN 13
- 9780061857638
- Publisher
- Ecco
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2011-09
- Pages
- 432 pages
- Size
- 6 x 1.33 x 9 inches
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