Russell Banks

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....

In The Sweet Hereafter, Russell Banks tells a story that begins with a school bus accident. Using four different narrators, Banks creates a small-town morality play that addresses one of life's most agonizing questions: of where the blames lies when the worst thing happens....

Vanessa Cole is a wild, stunningly beautiful heiress. At her parents' country home, two events coincide to permanently alter the course of Vanessa's callow life....

With The Angel on the Roof, Russell Banks offers listeners an astonishing collection of 30 years of his short fiction....

The acclaimed author of The Sweet Hereafter and Rule of the Bone returns with a provocative new novel....

Deeply researched, brilliantly plotted, and peopled with a cast of unforgettable characters both historical and wholly invented, Cloudsplitter is dazzling in its re-creation of the political and social landscape of our history....

When we first meet him, Chappie is a punked-out teenager living with his mother and abusive stepfather in an upstate New York trailer park....

The Darling is Hannah Musgrave's story, told emotionally and convincingly years later by Hannah herself....

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....

A husband sells property to a mysterious, temperamental stranger, and is hounded on social media when he publicly questions the man's character. A couple grows concerned when an enigmatic family moves next door, and the children start sneaking over to beg for help.