Affliction by Russell Banks Cheap

Cloth; Used. Fine. Dust Jacket: Fine. Affliction by Russell Banks. First Edition First Printing. Psychological Fiction.

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.