A Permanent Member of the Family - Russell Banks

Written by Russell Banks
Read by Danny Campbell, Andrus Nichols
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 32 Kbps

General Information
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Title: A Permanent Member of the Family
Author: Russell Banks
Reader: Danny Campbell, Andrus Nichols
Audiobook Copyright: 2013-11-12
Publisher: HarperAudio
Duration: 5 hrs 58 mins
ISBN: 9780062120892
Subjects: Fiction

File Information
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Media Format: AAC
Total Files: 1
Total Size: 83.8 MB
Bitrate: 32 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Channels: Stereo

Book Description
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A masterly collection of new stories from Russell Banks, acclaimed
author of The Sweet Hereafter and Rule of the Bone, which maps the
complex terrain of the modern American family The New York Times lauds
Russell Banks as “the most compassionate fiction writer working today”
and hails him as a novelist who delivers “wrenching, panoramic visions
of American moral life.” Long celebrated for his unflinching,
empathetic works that explore the unspoken but hard realities of
contemporary culture, Banks now turns his keen intelligence and
emotional acuity on perhaps his most complex subject yet: the shape of
family in its many forms. Suffused with Banks’s trademark lyricism and
reckless humor, the twelve stories in A Permanent Member of the Family
examine the myriad ways we try-and sometimes fail-to connect with one
another, as we seek a home in the world. In the title story, a father
looks back on the legend of the cherished family dog whose divided
loyalties mirrored the fragmenting of his marriage. In “Christmas
Party,” a young man entertains dark thoughts as he watches his newly
remarried ex-wife leading the life he once imagined they would share.
“A Former Marine” asks, to chilling effect, if one can ever stop being
a parent. And in the haunting, evocative “Veronica,” a mysterious
woman searching for her missing daughter may not be who she claims she
is. Moving between the stark beauty of winter in upstate New York and
the seductive heat of Florida, A Permanent Member of the Family charts
with subtlety and precision the ebb and flow of both the families we
make for ourselves and the ones we’re born into, as it asks how we
know the ones we love and, in turn, ourselves. One of our most acute
and penetrating authors, Banks’s virtuosic writing animates stories
that are profoundly humane, deeply-and darkly-funny, and absolutely
unforgettable.