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The Reserve (Audio CD)

by Russell Banks (Author), Tom Stechschulte (Narrator)

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Publisher: HarperCollins Canada / Audio; Unabridged edition (Jan 16 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061457515
ISBN-13: 978-0061457517
Product Dimensions: 15 x 13.5 x 3.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 273 g

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Tom Stechschulte's voice is well suited to this novel's myriad layers of time and interlocking characters. Although superficially different-genteel versus rebellious, calm versus wild-the central figures all have an old-fashioned depth. Set in the mid-1930s amid mounting concerns over war, numerous characters have Germanic accents, which Stechschulte reproduces adeptly. He shifts easily from the backwoods drawl of the people who live surrounding the exclusive reserve in the Adirondacks to the haughty upper-class tones of the wealthy who stay there. Similarly, he captures the broad, confident tones of Jordan Groves, the prickly artist who fits neither group, but then moves his voice fluidly to that of the enigmatic heiress, Vanessa Cole, who catches Groves's eye. Stechschulte gives Vanessa's words the right husky, even sultry quality, but more importantly he perfectly expresses her rapidly shifting emotions of inner turmoil and borderline madness. Simultaneous release with the Harper hardcover (Reviews, Nov. 26).
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Part love story, part murder mystery, set on the cusp of the Second World War, Russell Banks' sharp-witted and deeply engaging new novel raises dangerous questions about class, politics, art, love, and madness-and explores what happens when two powerful personalities begin to break the rules.

29-year-old Vanessa Cole is a wild, stunningly beautiful heiress, scandalously linked to any number of rich and famous men. But at her parents' country home in a remote Adirondack Mountain enclave known as The Reserve, two events coincide to permanently alter the course of Vanessa's callow life: her father dies suddenly of a heart attack, and a mysteriously seductive local artist, Jordan Groves, lands his biplane in the forbidden Upper Lake...

Internationally known as much for his exploits and conquests as for his paintings themselves, Jordan's leftist loyalties seem suspiciously undercut by his wealth and upper-crust clientele. But for all his worldly swagger, Jordon is as staggered by Vanessa's beauty and charm as she is by his defiant independence. He falls easy prey to her electrifying personality, but it is not long before he discovers that the heiress carries a dark, deeply scarring family secret. Emotionally unstable from the start, and further unhinged by her father's unexpected death, Vanessa begins to spin wildly out of control, manipulating and destroying the lives of all who cross her path. The Reserve is a clever, incisive, and passionately romantic novel of suspense that adds a new dimension to this acclaimed author's extraordinary repertoire.

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4.0 out of 5 stars "She was luminous to him, enveloped by a light that seemed to emanate from inside her, a gleaming halo wrapped around her entire, Mar 20 2008

By	Michael Leonard "MikeonAlpha" (Silver Lake, Los Angeles, USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

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Awash with Hollywood sensibility, The Reserve with all of its over-the-top melodrama remains a compelling study of adultery, murder, and sexual and emotional obsession. Possessed of an unashamedly cinematic quality, Banks' novel is peppered with an assortment of colourful characters: the misunderstood artist, the brooding and gruff mountain guide, the beautiful, but half-crazy young heiress, and the wealthy matriarch who holds a long-buried family secret.

In the Tamarack Lake area of the Adirondacks, a place of dark and lonely Nordic thoughtfulness a vast space opens up between lake and forest and mountain and sky when nine people are gathered to celebrate Dr. Cole's 1936 annual Fourth of July Celebration. Here at Rangeview, the largest of only half-dozen rough-hewn log camps, a few of which are elaborately luxurious, Carter and Evelyn Cole wine and dine with their eminently well-connected friends, the men and their wives who have made a great deal of money buying and selling stocks and bonds in the roaring 1920's.

Also in attendance is Vanessa, the Coles' only child. Adopted and at thirty, married and divorced twice, Vanessa has remained childless, "barren," as she puts it. A disconsolate and rather wayward, girl, she's more content to walk by the rocky seashore with a soft wind sifting the tall pines behind her, than join her parents in their patriotic festivities. For months now, Vanessa has been unhappy, perhaps because she's realized that this scene with her parents and their well-to-do friends is just not hers anymore.

This is a world where the mountains and forests and lakes and streams are held for the exclusive use and enjoyment of members and their guests, and is off-limits to strangers and tourists. So Vanessa is surprised when she hears an airplane growing louder in the distance, a seaplane with two large pontoons that touches down on the far side of the lake. When the pilot introduces himself as Gordon Groves, Vanessa immediately recognizes the famous artist.

Known mostly for his graphic work - woodcuts, etchings, prints, Groves has become increasingly known, both in the United States and the Soviet Union for his radical leftist politics. Of course, the attraction between Jordan and Vanessa is instant, and as her cheek nearly brushes him and pulls away, neither of them can deny this electric sexual energy that passes between them, and in typically rebellious fashion, she begs him to take her for a ride in the airplane.

When he lets her fly dangerously close to the mountains, and then leaves her to walk alone back to her family's cabin, the stage is set for a battle of wills. For Jordan proves to be totally enraptured by the heiress and enveloped by a light that seems to emanate from inside her. When an incident at the club Tamarack Club Estates, involving her angers him, he blames her for what she thought she knew about him. Then an unusual request from her charts him on a course, which ends up threatening his marriage to his beloved Alicia.

Banks fills his pages with shame and remorse and broken-down marriages. Jordan ends up finding himself caught in secrets and lies, rumors and gossip, while the author paints a portrait of an egocentric man, blindsided by his own arrogant self-image. In the end all is mired in histrionics and melodrama, kidnapping and imprisonment, with the plot hinging on a fatal accident involving a shot gun and a set of lurid photos - possibly kiddie porn that may or may not exist - and a fire that proves to be the climax to the events of this over-the-top but always entertaining novel. Mike Leonard March 08.

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