Success Stories

In Sucess Stories , an exceptionally varied yet coherent collection, Russell Banks proves himself one of the most astute and forceful writers in America today. Queen for a Day, Success Story, and Adultery trace fortunes of the Painter family in there pursuit of and retreat from the American dream. Banks also explores the ethos of rampant materialism in a group of contemporary moral fables. The Fish is an evocating parable of faith and greed set in a Southeast Asian village, The Gully tells of the profitability of violence and the ironies of upward mobility in a Latin American shantytown, and Chrildren''s Story explores the repressed rage that boils beneath the surface of relationships between parents and children and between citizens of the first and third worlds.

Product details

• Authors: Russell Banks, Arturo Patten
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.04.1996
• EAN: 9780060927196
• ISBN: 978-0-06-092719-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 201 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Historical / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, FICTION: Fantasy / Historical, FICTION: Science Fiction / Time Travel, FICTION: Fantasy / Dark Fantasy