Books by Russell Banks
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English
review 1: First Banks book I've read and while it sounds cavalier, I can't quite get a grasp - just judging by these stories - why he's considered such an iconic author. His greatest strength here seems to be compression; there's no unnecessary fluff. It's impressively lean work, with noth...
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English
review 1: This book was too weird for me. I always described to my friends as a book about a sex offender and his iguana that live under a bridge. Spoiler alert: the iguana gets shot. And it only gets stranger from there. Towards the end it turns into a spy novel? I found that I wasn't enj...