- Paperback
- Publisher: Vintage Books; 1st Printing edition (2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0060931256
- ISBN-13: 978-0060931254
- Product Dimensions: 20.5 x 13.6 x 3.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 386 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,399,807 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Banks Never Disappoints,
This review is from: Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks (Hardcover)
I had never heard of Russel Banks until I picked up a copy of The Sweet Hearafter. Being from a small town in Northern, New York I immediately identified with the characters and the feeling that Banks is able to bring forth in his writing of small town life in depressed areas. I proceeded to read everthing he has ever written. I found myself learning something new in each of the books and invigorated by the diversity in his writing. Banks does not deliver in each of his short stories in this collection but who ever does. Many such as Plains of Abraham, Firewood, The Burden are touching, real, thoughful and to me anything but depressing. The relationship between father and son that Banks explores in many of the short stories I felt hit the mark. Banks short stories at their best make me more aware of myself and where I am from. I'm grateful Banks is doing what he is doing. This collection of short stories are reminders for me of what I left behind as well as what may lie ahead.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Genius of short stories,
By A Customer
This review is from: Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks (Hardcover)
This guy is great. His writing is so spare, so tender and so beautiful it's almost too good! This does mean the book lasts longer than most as you have to keep setting it down to gasp in wonderment, shake your head and think about what you've just read. I love Russell Banks!
5.0 out of 5 stars
The heir to Raymond Carver,
By Federico (Fred) Moramarco (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks (Hardcover)
Russell Banks is known primarily as a novelist, but his collected short stories show him to be a master of the shorter form as well. Some of these stories--like "Success Story" and "Fisherman" are masterpieces--the latter having affinities with Mark Twain's "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" and Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery." Banks is at his best when he writes about New England working class people who live in trailer parks, drink lots of booze, and whose lives are bounded and limited by solitude and lonliness. This collection follows in the realistic tradition of Ray Carver's "Where I'm Calling From." Both writers present us with a disctinctly male view of the world, and they have great feeling and empathy for their characters.
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