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OverviewHamilton 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Russell BanksPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc Imprint: HarperCollins Dimensions: Width: 12.70cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 20.40cm Weight: 0.345kg ISBN: 9780060977054ISBN 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 We will order this item for you from a manufatured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsBanks 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 Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |