Lost Memory of Skin

Lost Memory of Skin

by Russell Banks
Lost Memory of Skin

Lost Memory of Skin

by Russell Banks

Paperback(Reprint)

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Overview

“Of the many writers working in the great tradition today, one of the best is Russell Banks." —New York Times

?“Like our living literary giants Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon, Russell Banks is a great writer wrestling with the hidden secrets and explosive realities of this country.” —Cornel West

Lost Memory of Skin is a provocative novel of spiritual and moral redemption from Russell Banks, the author of Affliction, Rule of the Bone, Continental Drift, Cloudsplitter, and other acclaimed masterworks of contemporary American fiction. 

Uncompromising and complex, Lost Memory of Skin is the story of The Kid, a young sex offender recently released from prison and forced to live beneath a South Florida causeway. When The Professor, a man of enormous intellect and appetite, takes The Kid under his wing, his own startling past will cause upheavals in both of their worlds. At once lyrical, witty, and disturbing, Banks’s extraordinary novel showcases his abilities as a world-class storyteller as well as his incisive understanding of the dangerous contradictions and hypocrisies of modern American society.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780061857645
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 07/17/2012
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 432
Sales rank: 533,590
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Russell Banks, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, was one of America’s most prestigious fiction writers, a past president of the International Parliament of Writers, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been translated into twenty languages and he received numerous prizes and awards, including the Common Wealth Award for Literature. He died in January 2023 at the age of eighty-two.

 

Date of Birth:

March 28, 1940

Place of Birth:

Newton, Massachusetts

What People are Saying About This

Michael Ondaatje

“Russell Banks’s work presents without falsehood and with tough affection the uncompromising moral voice of our time... I trust his portraits of America more than any other—the burden of it, the need for it, the hell of it.”

Cornel West

“Like our living literary giants Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon, Russell Banks is a great writer wrestling with the hidden secrets and explosive realities of this country.”

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