Affliction
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.It is a mark of Russell Banks' artistry and understanding that Wade comes to loom in one's mind as a blue-collar American Everyman afflicted by the dark secret of the macho tradition. Told by his articulate, equally scarred younger brother, Wade's story becomes as spellbinding and inexorable as a fuse burning its way to the dynamite. more
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Pages: 368, Paperback, Harper Perennial |
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Recent Reviews
- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jul-25-2009
- You are missing the point . . .
Affliction is a movie about how childhood trauma rears its head in adulthood and makes a misery of a good man's life. Wade is not in any way a brutal man; he is a man who is making a valiant effort to keep himself from brutality. Because...
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- 1/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jun-19-2009
- Not received or returned to me the sender after many emails.
The book was rejected by Ventura Co. jail, Ca. and no one can tell me where it is. I was told that it would be returned. Nothing. Where is this book? Can someone track it down and, at least, send it to me? Thanks. I appreciate any help...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: May-16-2008
- A haunting look at ones mans deteriorating sanity...
I can only conclude after finishing `Affliction' that Russell Banks is our greatest American author. Those were my feelings after reading this for the first time, but after my second time through the book my feelings are confirmed. I...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Apr-25-2008
- Excellent
A stirring and strange tale that turns a philosophial microscope on a troubled man waging battle against his community, his self and his painful past.
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Selected Reviews
- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jul-25-2009
- You are missing the point . . .
Affliction is a movie about how childhood trauma rears its head in adulthood and makes a misery of a good man's life. Wade is not in any way a brutal man; he is a man who is making a valiant effort to keep himself from brutality. Because...
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- 3/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Oct-13-2000
- try Ernest Hebert
Affliction is apparently a somewhat autobiographical novel about Wade Whitehouse, a crude & somewhat brutal son of a truly barbarous father. Wade is now in his forties, lives in the Mountains of Central New Hampshire and works as a well...
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- 1/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jun-19-2009
- Not received or returned to me the sender after many emails.
The book was rejected by Ventura Co. jail, Ca. and no one can tell me where it is. I was told that it would be returned. Nothing. Where is this book? Can someone track it down and, at least, send it to me? Thanks. I appreciate any help...
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