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The stories that work have the fire and ice that loom over life and the magic that comes from a good story well and craftily told. --Boston Globe Each story is uncommonly good ... surprising, lively writing and believablyhuman characters.... Banks has a terrific eye, mordant yet affectionate, forthe bric-a-brac and the pathos of the American dream . -- Washington Post Book World Mesmerizing .... There are times when Banks's prose fairly dazzles. -- Publishers Weekly

The stories that work have the fire and ice that loom over life and the magic that comes from a good story well and craftily told. -- Boston Globe Each story is uncommonly good. . . surprising, lively writing and believably human characters. . . . Banks has a terrific eye, mordant yet affectionate, for the bric-a-brac and the pathos of the American dream. -- Washington Post Book World Mesmerizing. . . . There are times when Banks's prose fairly dazzles. -- Publishers Weekly

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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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