Synopsis The story of Wade Whitehouse, a policeman in a bleak New Hampshire town, is told by his younger brother as a blue-collar American macho tragedy.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1993-08-01 | | Edition Description: | Reprint |
| Size | | Height: | 9.0 in | | Width: | 6.0 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 14.4 oz |
Industry Reviews "When Banks...presents his material directly and dramatically, he reveals himself as a powerful and sometimes poetic writer who knows the texture of the things he describes...The grimness is redeemed...by the sympathetic insight which the author brings to the hapless Wade." New York Review of Books - Robert Towers (12/07/1989)
"[Banks's] nine previous novels and story collections can be viewed as a painstaking--and in places, a very successful--progress toward 'Affliction'...The drive of [this book's] plot is intense through the final pages...[Banks] began his career divided between a common life subject matter and an experimental style. Subject has obviously won out." Sven Birkerts (09/11/1989)
"What makes 'Affliction' remarkable is that Banks makes a cowardly, violent man profoundly understandable, as Dreiser did with Clyde Griffiths in 'An American Tragedy'." Birkerts
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