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: 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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- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jan-07-2007
- very good
This book is spellbinding in its story but also in its character description. It is another father beats son story but its OK because Banks handles the material with such skill and the story is about so much else as well. It is set in...
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- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Dec-30-2002
- A strong look at alcoholism and child abuse
Russell Banks has crafted a strong story about the effects of alcoholism on children. The story follows Wade, a divorced father of a single pre-teen daughter. The mother, however - his high school sweetheart, whom he had married, and...
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Selected Reviews
- 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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- 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: Sep-22-1999
- A literary faker
Have we really so little judgment as to think Banks is actually a fiction writer? He doesn't demonstrate the slightest real understanding of people and his novels are simply thin pastiches of what he has been taught to regard as...
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