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Russell Banks


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

Died
January 07, 2023

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Russell Banks was 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.

Average rating: 3.78 · 98,508 ratings · 9,913 reviews · 103 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Sweet Hereafter

3.87 avg rating — 10,240 ratings — published 1991 — 26 editions
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Rule of the Bone

3.89 avg rating — 9,573 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions
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Lost Memory of Skin

3.60 avg rating — 6,825 ratings — published 2011 — 41 editions
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Cloudsplitter

3.94 avg rating — 5,161 ratings — published 1998
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Affliction: A PEN/Faulkner ...

4.01 avg rating — 3,919 ratings — published 1989 — 44 editions
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Continental Drift

3.87 avg rating — 4,030 ratings — published 1985 — 45 editions
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The Darling

3.82 avg rating — 2,617 ratings — published 2004 — 43 editions
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The Reserve

3.03 avg rating — 2,473 ratings — published 2008 — 39 editions
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The Magic Kingdom

3.65 avg rating — 1,861 ratings — published 2022 — 13 editions
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Foregone

3.25 avg rating — 1,716 ratings — published 2021 — 23 editions
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Quotes by Russell Banks  (?)
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“Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.”
Russell Banks, Continental Drift

“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

“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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2nd Quarter (April - June) 2024 Long Read Poll

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, 1868, 1392 pages
 
  91 votes, 48.4%

 
  23 votes, 12.2%

Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore, 1869, 800 pages
 
  21 votes, 11.2%

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, 1995, 624 pages
 
  19 votes, 10.1%

A Dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin, 1791, 599 pages
 
  16 votes, 8.5%

Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks, 1998, 758 pages
 
  12 votes, 6.4%

 
  6 votes, 3.2%

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