Trailerpark (Mass Market Paperback)

by Russell Banks (Author) "THE STORY OF FLORA PEASE, how she got to be the way she is now, isn't all that uncommon a story, except maybe in the..." (more)

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Mass Market Paperback: 274 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books; Reprint edition (Jul 12 1986)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0345330773
ISBN-13: 978-0345330772
Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.2 x 2.3 cm
Shipping Weight: 137 g

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Get to know the colorful cast of characters at the Granite State Trailerpark, where Flora in number 11 keeps more than a hundred guinea pigs andscreams at people to stay away from her babies, Claudel in number 5 thinks he is lucky until his wife burns down their trailer and runs off with Howie Leeke, and Noni in number 7 has telephone conversations with Jesus and tells the police about them. In this series of related short stories, Russell Banks offers gripping, realistic portrayals of individual Americans and paints a portrait of New England life that is at once dark, witty, and revealing.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

Russell Banks is the former president of Cities of Refuge North America, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His work has been translated into twenty languages and has received numerous international prizes and awards. Banks lives in upstate New York, and he was the New York State author from 2004–2008.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Haunting and wonderful, Jun 24 2004

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The stories in this book have stayed with me for years. Russell Banks writes beautiful, improbable and totally realistic characters that suck you in and who you will carry them around with you for a long time afterward.

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5.0 out of 5 stars This just gets sadder and sadder..., Feb 28 2002

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Not sure if there's a certain "order" one should read Banks' books in, but I started with "Rule of the Bone" which I enjoyed so much I immediately bought "Trailerpark" and then "Book of Jamaica" (which I have not yet read). In this collection of short stories, we see a cast of characters that, at first glance, could be from Anytown USA. As the stories develop, at first humourous then getting progressively more bleak, we begin to realize that what makes the characters unique, as in "Rule of the Bone," is their life in the rural northeast. I love the way the lives of the tenants of the Granite State Trailerpark are intertwined; it's just a fabulous read.

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4.0 out of 5 stars This is an excellent description of human characteristics., Mar 22 1998

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I just finished this book; it is a fast read that provides really good descriptions of the human condition. It is insightful, and in places, quite eloquent. The depictions are so real that you will recognize the people in the story, but have to change their names.

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4.0 out of 5 stars This is a collection of short stories.
This collection of short stories can be read as a novel. Most of the action takes place in the late 1970s in a trailer park in the Northeastern part of the USA. Read more

Published on Mar 4 1998