Russell Banks

Wade Whitehouse is an improbable protagonist for a tragedy. A well-digger and policeman in a bleak New Hampshire town, he is a former high-school star gone to beer fat, a loner with a mean streak....

In The Sweet Hereafter, Russell Banks tells a story that begins with a school bus accident. Using four different narrators, Banks creates a small-town morality play that addresses one of life's most agonizing questions: of where the blames lies when the worst thing happens....

The Darling is Hannah Musgrave's story, told emotionally and convincingly years later by Hannah herself....

Vanessa Cole is a wild, stunningly beautiful heiress. At her parents' country home, two events coincide to permanently alter the course of Vanessa's callow life....

With The Angel on the Roof, Russell Banks offers listeners an astonishing collection of 30 years of his short fiction....

Suffused with Banks's trademark lyricism and reckless humor, A Permanent Member of the Family is an audible compilation of 12 stories....

In Family Life, Russell Banks' first novel, he transforms the dramas of domesticity into the story of a royal family in a mythical contemporary kingdom....

In this series of related short stories, Russell Banks offers gripping, realistic portrayals of individual Americans and paints a portrait of New England life that is at once dark, witty, and revealing....

Russell Banks' Continental Drift is a masterful novel of hope lost and gained and a gripping, indelible story of fragile lives uprooted and transformed by injustice....

Deeply researched, brilliantly plotted, and peopled with a cast of unforgettable characters both historical and wholly invented, Cloudsplitter is dazzling in its re-creation of the political and social landscape of our history....

The acclaimed author of The Sweet Hereafter and Rule of the Bone returns with a provocative new novel....

Hamilton Stark is a New Hampshire pipe fitter and the sole inhabitant of the house from which he evicted his own mother....

The Relation of My Imprisonment is a work of fiction utilizing a form invented in the seventeenth century by imprisoned Puritan divines....

When we first meet him, Chappie is a punked-out teenager living with his mother and abusive stepfather in an upstate New York trailer park....