Russell Banks

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March 28, 1940 in Newton, Massachusetts, The United States

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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

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Russell Banks is a member of the International Parliament of Writers and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been translated into twenty languages and has received numerous international prizes and awards. He has written fiction, and more recently, non-fiction, with Dreaming up America. His main works include the novels Continental Drift, Rule of the Bone, Cloudsplitter, The Sweet Hereafter, and Affliction. The latter two novels were each made into feature films in 1997.

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Average rating: 3.74 · 15,302 ratings · 2,103 reviews · 27 distinct works

	Rule of the Bone 3.81 avg rating — 3,305 ratings — published 1995 — 30 editions	My rating:
	The Sweet Hereafter 3.84 avg rating — 3,225 ratings — published 1991 — 23 editions	My rating:
	Cloudsplitter 3.84 avg rating — 1,403 ratings — published 1998 — 18 editions	My rating:
	Affliction by Russell Banks, Arturo Patten 3.98 avg rating — 1,190 ratings — published 1989 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Lost Memory of Skin: A Novel 3.53 avg rating — 1,195 ratings — published 2011 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Continental Drift 3.85 avg rating — 1,030 ratings — published 1985 — 18 editions	My rating:
	The Darling 3.71 avg rating — 977 ratings — published 2004 — 24 editions	My rating:
	The Reserve 2.92 avg rating — 1,017 ratings — published 2008 — 19 editions	My rating:
	Trailerpark 3.75 avg rating — 416 ratings — published 1981 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Angel on the Roof 3.87 avg rating — 358 ratings — published 1999 — 17 editions	My rating:

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“Loyalty is weird, it kicks in when you dont expect it and the people who deserve loyalty least seem to get it the most.”
― Russell Banks

tags: rule-of-the-bone

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“If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.”
― Russell Banks

tags: discipline , writing

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“Lists of books we re-read and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves”
― Russell Banks

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April, 2012 Sisterhood Book of the Month...What do you want to read?!?!

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

15 votes, 35.7%

Looking for Alaska by John Green

8 votes, 19.0%

A Vintage Affair by Isabel Wolff

6 votes, 14.3%

The Replacement Wife by Eileen Goudge

4 votes, 9.5%

Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks

3 votes, 7.1%

The Baker's Daughter by Sarah McCoy

3 votes, 7.1%

By the Iowa Sea: A Memoir of Disaster and Love by Joe Blair

2 votes, 4.8%

The Orchid House: A Novel by Lucinda Riley

1 vote, 2.4%

Bella by Steve Piacente

0 votes, 0.0%

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