Hamilton Stark

Author:   Russell Banks
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers Inc
ISBN:  

9780060977054


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   05 June 1996
Format:   Paperback
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD   Availability explained
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Hamilton Stark is a New Hampshire pipe fitter and the sole inhabitant of the house from which he evicted his own mother. He is the villain of five marriages and the father of a daughter so obsessed that she has been writing a book about him for years. Hamilton Stark is a boor, a misanthrope, a handsome man: funny, passionately honest, and a good dancer. The narrator, a middle-aged writer, decides to write about Stark as a hero whose anger and solitude represent passion and wisdom. At the same time that he tells Hamilton Stark's story, he describes the process of writing the novel and the complicated connections between truth and fiction. As Stark slips in and out of focus, maddeningly elusive and fascinatingly complex, this beguiling novel becomes at once a compelling meditation on identity and a thoroughly engaging story of life on the cold edge of New England.

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Author:   Russell Banks
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Imprint:   HarperCollins
Dimensions:   Width: 12.70cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 20.40cm
Weight:   0.345kg
ISBN:  

9780060977054


ISBN 10:   0060977051
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   05 June 1996
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD   Availability explained
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Banks has skillfully used his repertoire of contemporary techniques to write a novel that is classically American -- a dark, but sometimes funny, romance with echoes of Poe and Melville. --Washington Post Stunning and original.... Russell Banks's most sustained, intricate, and impressive work to dote.... Bunks is a writer who has a mind. -- Chicago Sun-Times A successIronic, melancholy, and haunting. -- Newsweek


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