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Original Title:	Affliction
ISBN:	0060920076 (ISBN13: 9780060920074)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (1990)

Affliction

Russell Banks

Paperback | Pages: 368 pages

Rating: 3.99 | 3284 Users | 226 Reviews

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Wade Whitehouse is an improbable protagonist for a tragedy. A well-digger and policeman in a bleak New Hampshire town, he is a former high-school star gone to beer fat, a loner with a mean streak. It is a mark of Russell Banks' artistry and understanding that Wade comes to loom in one's mind as a blue-collar American Everyman afflicted by the dark secret of the macho tradition. Told by his articulate, equally scarred younger brother, Wade's story becomes as spellbinding and inexorable as a fuse burning its way to the dynamite.

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Title	:	Affliction
Author	:	Russell Banks
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 368 pages
Published	:	September 26th 1990 by Harper Perennial (first published September 9th 1989)
Categories	:	Fiction. Novels. Literature. Contemporary. Literary Fiction

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Ratings: 3.99 From 3284 Users | 226 Reviews

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I wanted to review a Russell Banks book, because he is one of if not my favorite authors post the 1970s or so. I've read most of his books and I wont get into Affliction so much as to make this a review of the author, who to me stands in contrast to all the twee cutesy crap that everyone seems to wet themselves over these days. The characters are real people who have to live in the real world (not the real world of college professors or the idle rich) Events outside of their control collide

I half-expected something like "Mystic River"; a manly tale of complex relationships against a gritty scenery. This book, however, is different in the way it goes deep into Wade, the main character. Although the landscape is rough and bleak, the way Russell Banks explores Wade's psyche is anything but virile. "Affliction" is a sensitive and uncompromising character study; I can see why Paul Schrader, the man who wrote "Taxi Driver", adapted this book into a movie. The atmosphere is pessimistic.

Some of the most beautiful writing I've read, on what it means to be human. I picked it up to examine its unusual point of view--the story is told by the protagonist's brother, not actually present for the events. Also admired its use of setting. The book moves slowly, in the way literary fiction often does, but the rewards are rich characters and a true world.

Banks' book starts off a bit slow with the overwhelming details of the town dwellers and the locale in NH. It helps but slows down the narrative before we're able to get to the heart of the story. Even the family conflict and addiction that becomes such a curse for Wade is presented almost halfway through the book culminating in a lot happening in the last few chapters. I enjoyed Banks' writing and the details we get into this freezing, working class town that tends to break people down



Russel Banks writes in a typical american style. His books are mostly if not full of pain and suffering. I first encountered him and his writing in the 'Continental Drift'. Thereafter, I read the Sweet Hereafter, which so far is my favorite. As for 'Affliction', the present work, he was compared by one of the commentators to the author of An American Tragedy. I respectfully disagree. Wade Whitehouse is the protagonist of the present book. He ends up killing his father Glenn Whitehouse and his

I am overwhelmed with awe at the perfection of this book. It is set just a few miles from my childhood home, with characters so finely drawn that I could see and hear them, though admittedly I am already familiar with this particular population. This concept of a life balanced on the fulcrum of time and circumstance is one that I agree with wholeheartedly. Watching this particular life as it sways and teeters, as a few random events, assumptions and reactions tip it over in a dizzying and