Affliction
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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.
If Russell Banks hadn t become a writer, he thinks he would have wound up stabbed to death in a barroom brawl. He is the son of a two-fisted, drunken New England plumber, and the grief of fatherly combat resonates through his work like the background radiation of the big bang. Banks became a violently drinking plumber himself--and then a Pulitzer Prize-nominated Princeton literary giant and one of the luckiest Oscar-buzzed writers in Hollywood history.(The Atom Egoyan adaptation of Banks s brilliant novel The Sweet Hereafter perfectly captures its brooding beauty, and Affliction may be Paul Schrader s finest film since he wrote Taxi Driver.)
Affliction transmutes Banks s painful past into fiction. His divorced protagonist, Wade Whitehouse, 41, is imprisoned by fate in Lawford, New Hampshire, a hell frozen over. He digs wells for chump change, lives in a trailer, drinks, and alienates his daughter by dragging her to a miserable Halloween costume party. In two weeks time, Wade demolishes his pitiable hopes of family happiness, drawn into a rigorously plausible series of disastrous deaths. In flashbacks to his Dad-abused youth, we see how Wade wound up such a Dostoyevskian clown.
Banks has a mind of winter: when Wade sees his dead parent, the scene unfolds with the cold logic of ice-crystal formation. The story is narrated by Wade s kid brother, the family s sole escapee to college, in a cool, distanced way. Both brothers contain aspects of Banks, but each breaks free of autobiography. This is one haunting novel. Author: Russell BanksBinding: PaperbackBrand: Harper PerennialEAN: 9780060920074Edition: ReprintFeature: Great product!ISBN: 0060920076Label: Harper PerennialManufacturer: Harper PerennialMPN: 9780060920074NumberOfItems: 1NumberOfPages: 355PackageQuantity: 1PartNumber: 9780060920074ProductGroup: BookProductTypeName: ABIS_BOOKPublicationDate: 1990-09-26Publisher: Harper PerennialReleaseDate: 1990-09-26SKU: 9780060920074Studio: Harper PerennialTitle: Affliction
