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"A New York Times Notable Book - National Bestseller ""Russell Banks's work presents without falsehood and with tough affection the uncompromising moral voice of our time. You find the craziness of false dreams, the political inequalities, and somehow the sliver of redemption.""--Michael Ondaatje Set in Liberia and the United States from 1975 through 1991, The Darling, from acclaimed author Russell Banks, is the story of Hannah Musgrave, a political radical and member of the Weather Underground. Hannah flees America for West Africa, where she and her Liberian husband become friends of the notorious warlord and ex-president, Charles Taylor. Hannah's encounter with Taylor ultimately triggers a series of events whose momentum catches Hannah's family in its grip and forces her to make a heartrending choice."

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In The Darling, he is working at full strength, and his readers are in his debt. -- Washington Post Book World

In The Darling, he is working at full strength, and his readers are in his debt. --Washington Post Book World Powerful and evocative... --Newsweek Extraordinary...Banks is the rare epic novelist. --Virginian Pilot Once again, he has produced a novel that is searing, demanding and unforgettable. --Newsweek A powerful new novel. --St. Louis Post-Dispatch Banks creates a heroine every bit as complex and flawed as someone out of Jane Austen. --Hartford Courant Banks has created a heroine every bit as complex and flawed as something out of Jane Austen. --St. Petersburg Times Hannah's story shows why Banks ranks among our boldest artists. --Boston Globe Reverberating with ideas and startling prose. --Village Voice Banks's novel is a vivid account of a time of terror, exposing the secrets of the soul. --O magazine Banks' mastery of his material makes this a compelling and important book. --Orlando Sentinel Banks has written a novel that is utterly accessible, forcefully wrought and undeniably passionate. --Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers

Banks s novel is a vivid account of a time of terror, exposing the secrets of the soul. --O magazine

-Extraordinary...Banks is the rare epic novelist.---Virginian Pilot

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Russell Banks, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, was one of America's most prestigious fiction writers, a past president 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 he received numerous prizes and awards, including the Common Wealth Award for Literature. He died in January 2023 at the age of eighty-two.

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