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Affliction
Author: Russell Banks
Narrator: Richard Ferrone
Unabridged: 15 hr 45 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Harper Audio
Published: 10/27/2020
Category: Fiction - Literary
Synopsis
"Banks has taken on a profound theme, the ruinous and awful affliction of violence that seems to live like a secret blood-disease handed down in men like Wade. . . . He turns it into a living art that can bring recognition and awe." — Los Angeles Book Review"A masterwork of contemporary American fiction" (Chicago Tribune) from one of the most acclaimed and important writers of our timeWade 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's 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.