Russell Banks (1940–2023)
Autor(a) de Cloudsplitter
About the Author
The oldest of four children, Russell Banks spent his childhood and adolescence in New Hampshire and Eastern Massachusetts. His blue collar, working class background is strongly reflected in his writing. The first in his family to attend college, Banks studied at Colgate University and later mostrar mais graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill. While he was establishing himself as a writer, Banks spent time as a plumber, shoe salesman, and a window dresser. Banks's titles include Searching for Survivors, Family Life, Hamilton Stark, The New World, The Book of Jamaica, Trailerpark, The Relation of My Imprisonment, Continental Drift, Success Stories, Affliction, The Sweet Hereafter and Dreaming Up America. Banks has also written numerous poems, stories, and essays. Banks is the recipient of several awards and prizes. Among his accolades are the St. Lawrence Award for Short Fiction, the John Dos Passos Award, and the Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1986, Continental Drift was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras por Russell Banks
Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story (in The Best American Short Stories of the Eighties - RAVENEL) 2 exemplares
Martin Luther: renegade and prophet 2 exemplares
Plains of Abraham 1 exemplar
Russel Banks : Coffret en 3 volumes : Sous le règne de Bone ; De beaux lendemains ; American Darling (2008) 1 exemplar
The Moor (in Birthday Stories - MURAKAMI) 1 exemplar
On the Road [screenplay] 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Contribuidor — 511 exemplares
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Contribuidor — 452 exemplares
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Introdução — 380 exemplares
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Contribuidor — 346 exemplares
The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories (1986) — Contribuidor — 339 exemplares
Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out… (2000) — Contribuidor — 301 exemplares
The Condé Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys: Great Writers on Great Places (2007) — Contribuidor — 255 exemplares
Burn This Book: PEN Writers Speak Out on the Power of the Word (2009) — Contribuidor — 180 exemplares
Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past and Each Other (2001) — Contribuidor — 133 exemplares
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Contribuidor — 72 exemplares
High Infidelity: 24 Great Short Stories About Adultery by Some of Our Best Contemporary Authors (1997) — Contribuidor — 32 exemplares
The Best of the Best American Mystery Stories: The First Ten Years (2014) — Contribuidor — 20 exemplares
Antaeus No. 64/65, Spring/Autumn 1990 - Twentieth Anniversary Issue (1990) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
The Hurly Burly and Other Stories (2021) — Prefácio, algumas edições; Editor, algumas edições — 9 exemplares
Antaeus No. 73/74, Spring 1994 - Who’s Writing This: Notations on the Authorial I {magazine} (1994) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Fire Exit, 4 — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Christmas 1968: 14 poets — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Truck 21, A 50th Birthday Celebration For Jonathan Williams — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Banks, Russell Earl
- Data de nascimento
- 1940-03-28
- Data de falecimento
- 2023-01-08
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Newton, Massachusetts, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
- Causa da morte
- cancer
- Locais de residência
- Newton, Massachusetts, USA
New York State, USA - Educação
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Ocupações
- auteur
dichter - Relações
- Twichell, Chase (echtg.)
- Organizações
- International Parliament of Writers (President)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1998) - Prémios e menções honrosas
- John Dos Passos Prize (1985)
State Author of New York/Edith Wharton Citation of Merit (2004-06)
Artist-in-Residence, University of Maryland
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1986) - Agente
- Ellen Levine
Membros
Críticas
Continental Drift (P.S.) por Russell Banks
Continental Drift is a powerful book dealing that shows how some of the worst and most exploitive experiences that humans have are born from the trivial failures of imperfect people. Many of the people in this book are hugely flawed and only partly evil. Yet their actions and desperation when magnified by the relentless drive for profit on all things that is capitalism generate absolute horrors and destroy lives and spirits. A book like this should is so important especially now when so many advocates of social justice imagine that people can just "envision the good they want to be" and that that will be enough.… (mais)
A book that stops you in your tracks. Banks handles an amazing range of narrators with amazing deftness.
Nothing about grief is simple. For people, families, or communities. Banks writes it all here.
Nothing about grief is simple. For people, families, or communities. Banks writes it all here.
Ecriture très dense sans pratiquement de dialogues, ce livre est étonnant par son histoire "inventée" mais que l'on suppose tirée de faits réels, du moins pour la partie terrains rachetés par le géant Disney. J'avoue avoir hâté quelque peu la lecture des dernières pages en lisant en "diagonale" ce qu'écrivait le personnage principal et unique qui s'en registrait sur un magnétophone pour raconter sa vie, ses vérités et sans doute se faire pardonner enfin par la dernière personne vivante de sa famille. Dernier roman de Russel Banks, ce n'est pas celui que je préfère, mais il n'en demeure pas moins pour moi un grand écrivain.… (mais)
This book is comprised of three dark short stories/novellas written by the late Russell Banks. He passed away in 2023; a loss to American literature. The stories all take place in Sam Dent, a once bustling, now forgotten, decaying town in upstate New York.
My reaction after reading the first story was “Wow…Just wow.” What a great writer. Banks captures well the struggles of people who feel marginalized, the culture that has made a cult hero out of a con man former entertainer and president of the United States and the hate and vitriol that characterizes our current social/political climate as well as the devastating effects of that vitriol.
While the title American Spirits refers to the brand of cigarettes smoked by some of the characters, it of course is a metaphor for so much more. While reading about the sometimes horrors of everyday life may not be for everyone, I think I may have already found my favorite book of 2024.
Thanks to #netgalley and @aaknopf for the ARC.… (mais)
My reaction after reading the first story was “Wow…Just wow.” What a great writer. Banks captures well the struggles of people who feel marginalized, the culture that has made a cult hero out of a con man former entertainer and president of the United States and the hate and vitriol that characterizes our current social/political climate as well as the devastating effects of that vitriol.
While the title American Spirits refers to the brand of cigarettes smoked by some of the characters, it of course is a metaphor for so much more. While reading about the sometimes horrors of everyday life may not be for everyone, I think I may have already found my favorite book of 2024.
Thanks to #netgalley and @aaknopf for the ARC.… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 38
- Also by
- 45
- Membros
- 10,934
- Popularidade
- #2,163
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 299
- ISBN
- 374
- Línguas
- 12
- Marcado como favorito
- 38
