Off For The Sweet Hereafter

Author : Russell Banks
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780676970944

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The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks Pdf

When fourteen children from the small town of Sam Dent are lost in a tragic accident, its citizens are confronted with one of life’s most difficult and disturbing questions: When the worst happens, whom do you blame, and how do you cope? Masterfully written, it is a large-hearted novel that brings to life a cast of unforgettable small-town characters and illuminates the mysteries and realities of love as well as grief. The Sweet Hereafter was released as a major motion picture by Atom Egoyan in 1997 and won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. Egoyan also received Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay that year.

Author : T. R. Pearson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1520412401

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Off For The Sweet Hereafter by T. R. Pearson Pdf

The second installment in the Neely trilogy, which opens with a preposterously long sentence and goes downhill from there. Sex, gunplay, exhumed corpses. Something for everybody.

Author : Pearson T. R.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0463005538

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Off For The Sweet Hereafter by Pearson T. R. Pdf

Author : T. R. Pearson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Criminals
ISBN : 1386179515

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Off for the Sweet Hereafter by T. R. Pearson Pdf

Author : T. R. Pearson
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345343697

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Off for the Sweet Hereafter by T. R. Pearson Pdf

The modern Bonnie and Clyde story of Raeford Benton Lynch and Jane Elizabeth Firesheets.

Author : Russell Banks
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781847657855

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Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks Pdf

Suspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, a young man must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, he is shackled to a GPS monitoring device and forbidden to live within 2,500 feet of anywhere children might gather. With nowhere else to go, the Kid takes up residence in a makeshift encampment with other convicted sex offenders. Barely beyond childhood himself, the Kid is in many ways an innocent, trapped by impulses and foolish choices. Enter the Professor, a man who has built his own life on secrets and lies. A university sociologist of enormous size and intellect, he finds in the Kid the perfect subject for his research on homelessness and reoffending sex offenders. The two men forge a tentative partnership. But when the Professor's past resurfaces and threatens to destroy his carefully constructed world, the balance in the two men's relationship shifts. Suddenly, the Kid must reconsider everything he has come to believe, and choose what course of action to take when faced with a new kind of moral decision.

Author : T. R. Pearson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101126936

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A Short History of a Small Place by T. R. Pearson Pdf

Marvelously funny, bittersweet, and beautifully evocative, the original publication of A Short History of a Small Place announced the arrival of one of our great Southern voices. Although T. R. Pearson's Neely, North Carolina, doesn't appear on any map of the state, it has already earned a secure place on the literary landscape of the South. In this introduction to Neely, the young narrator, Louis Benfield, recounts the tragic last days of Miss Myra Angelique Pettigrew, a local spinster and former town belle who, after years of total seclusion, returns flamboyantly to public view-with her pet monkey, Mr. Britches. Here is a teeming human comedy inhabited by some of the most eccentric and endearing characters ever encountered in literature.

Author : Russell Banks
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307375643

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Rule Of The Bone by Russell Banks Pdf

Chappie is a punked-out teenager rejected by his mother and abusive stepfather. Out of school and in trouble with the police, he drifts through crash pads, doper squats, and malls until he finally settles in an abandoned school bus with Rose, a seven-year-old child, and I-Man, an exiled Rastafarian who will dramatically change his life. Together they begin an amazing journey...

Author : Russell Banks
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781771964005

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Foregone by Russell Banks Pdf

A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2021 A searing story about memory and betrayal from the acclaimed and bestselling Russell Banks In his late seventies and dying of cancer, famed Canadian-American documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders who fled to Canada to avoid Vietnam, has agreed to one final interview, determined to bare all his secrets and demythologize his mythologized life. But the story that unspools in front of the camera and an intimate chorus of observers, including Fife’s wife, his nurse, and his acolyte and former star student Malcolm Macleod, is confoundingly unexpected, the dark and affecting account of a man entirely unknown to all. A searing novel about memory, betrayal, love, and the faint grace note of redemption, Russell Banks’s Foregone is a daring and resonant work about the scope of one man’s mysterious life, revealed through the fragments of his recovered past.

Author : Russell Banks
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1997-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780676970944

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The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks Pdf

When fourteen children from the small town of Sam Dent are lost in a tragic accident, its citizens are confronted with one of life’s most difficult and disturbing questions: When the worst happens, whom do you blame, and how do you cope? Masterfully written, it is a large-hearted novel that brings to life a cast of unforgettable small-town characters and illuminates the mysteries and realities of love as well as grief. The Sweet Hereafter was released as a major motion picture by Atom Egoyan in 1997 and won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. Egoyan also received Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay that year.

Author : Russell Banks
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780676970951

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Affliction by Russell Banks Pdf

Wade Whitehouse, divorced, estranged from his young daughter, spends his days as a well-driller, snow-plow operator, and policeman, his nights in a wind-swept trailer park. But when a union boss is killed in an apparent hunting accident near Wade's home, and he is convinced that it is murder, he seizes the event as a chance to right many wrongs—unaware that as he unravels the mystery he himself will become unravelled. Soon his hunger for justice and self-respect become inseparable from a desperate violence.

Author : Russell Banks
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345808134

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A Permanent Member of the Family by Russell Banks Pdf

A sterling collection of short stories from the author of Rule of the Bone and The Sweet Hereafter--his first in almost fifteen years--including six never-before-published works. One of our most prestigious writers, Russell Banks is a literary icon whose works probe the recesses of the human condition. His novels and stories offer rich portraits that are profound and deeply resonant--appearing regularly in anthologies and collections such as The Best American Short Stories and The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories. This collection of twelve short works showcases this master at the peak of his intuitive powers. As he did in such works as the classic The Sweet Hereafter, the revered Rule of the Bone, and the haunting Lost Memory of Skin, Banks limns provocative and morally complex themes with pathos and sharp insight. Each of the stories in this powerful collection demonstrates the range and virtuosity of his narrative prowess and startlingly panoramic vision. A Permanent Member of the Family is a stunning addition to the canon of a writer "whose great works resonate with such heart and soul" (Janet Maslin, The New York Times).

Author : Tara Hudson
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062084491

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Hereafter by Tara Hudson Pdf

Can there truly be love after death? Drifting in the dark waters of a mysterious river, the only thing Amelia knows for sure is that she's dead. With no recollection of her past life—or her actual death—she's trapped alone in a nightmarish existence. All of this changes when she tries to rescue a boy, Joshua, from drowning in her river. As a ghost, she can do nothing but will him to live. Yet in an unforgettable moment of connection, she helps him survive. Amelia and Joshua grow ever closer as they begin to uncover the strange circumstances of her death and the secrets of the dark river that held her captive for so long. But even while they struggle to keep their bond hidden from the living world, a frightening spirit named Eli is doing everything in his power to destroy their newfound happiness and drag Amelia back into the ghost world . . . forever. Thrilling and evocative, with moments of pure pleasure, Hereafter is a sensation you won't want to miss.

Author : Russell Banks
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 837 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307367532

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Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks Pdf

A triumph of the imagination, rich in incident and beautiful in its detail, Cloudsplitter brings to life one of history's legendary figures--John Brown, whose passion to abolish slavery lit the fires of the American Civil War in a conflagration that changed civilization.

Author : Russell Banks
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062335852

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Trailerpark by Russell Banks Pdf

Get to know the colorful cast of characters at the Granite State Trailerpark, where Flora in number 11 keeps more than a hundred guinea pigs andscreams at people to stay away from her babies, Claudel in number 5 thinks he is lucky until his wife burns down their trailer and runs off with Howie Leeke, and Noni in number 7 has telephone conversations with Jesus and tells the police about them. In this series of related short stories, Russell Banks offers gripping, realistic portrayals of individual Americans and paints a portrait of New England life that is at once dark, witty, and revealing.