Russell Banks
Russell Banks ( born March 28, 1940 in Newton, Massachusetts) is an American writer.
Works
His first short story collection Searching for Survivors and Family Life, his first novel was published in 1975. Since then, another four collections of short stories and nine novels published. The two novels Affliction and The Sweet Hereafter was filmed.
A recurrent theme in Russell Banks are political and historical circumstances.
Particularly striking are Banks ' strong characters, such as the all-powerful father figure in Cloud Splitter or ajar to Mark Twain 's Huckleberry Finn Chappie from Rule of the Bone.
Short story collections
- Searching for Survivors, 1975
- The New World, 1978
- Trailer Park, 1981
- Success Stories, 1986
- The Angel on the Roof, 2000
- A permanent member of the Family. Clerkenwell Press, 2013
Novels
- Family Life, 1975
- Hamilton Stark, 1978
- The Book of Jamaica, 1980
- The Relation of My Imprisonment, 1983
- Continental Drift, 1985 - Dt. counterflow
- Affliction, 1989 - Dt. The hunted
- The Sweet Hereafter, 1991 - Dt. The Sweet Hereafter
- Rule of the Bone, 1995 - Dt. Gangsta Bone
- Cloud Splitter, 1998 - Dt. John Brown, my father
- The Darling, 2004 - Dt. The white shadow
Non- Fictional works
- Invisible Strangers, 1998