Affliction

"Banks has taken on a profound theme, the ruinous and awful affliction of violence that seems to live like a secret blood-disease handed down in men like Wade. . . . He turns it into a living art that can bring recognition and awe." — Los Angeles Book Review

"A masterwork of contemporary American fiction" (Chicago Tribune) from one of the most acclaimed and important writers of our time

Wade Whitehouse is an improbable protagonist for a tragedy. A well-digger and policeman in a bleak New Hamp...