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Ha passato una vita a raccontare storie vere, a girare documentari che ne hanno fatto un'icona, al punto che in Canada, dove risiede da decenni, Leonard Fife è considerato una sorta di monumento nazionale. Il suo primo lavoro ha smascherato la collusione tra il governo canadese e quello americano allo scopo di testare il famigerato Agent Orange. La sua ultima intervista dovrebbe essere la celebrazione di una vita straordinaria. L'ama...

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In dem kleinen Städtchen Lawford im US-Bundesstaat New Hampshire versucht Sheriff Wade Whitehouse, geschiedener Trinker und Vater einer Tochter, sein Leben in den Griff zu bekommen. Doch mit einem herrschsüchtigen Vater und einem korrupten Stadtrat als Arbeitgeber erweist sich das als sehr schwierig. Als dann ein Gewerkschafter, der in einem überregionalen Korruptionsprozess aussagen sollte, bei einem Jagdunfall ums Leben kommt, glaubt Wade an...

Banks explores the complexities of political life in the Caribbean.

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From one of America’s most beloved storytellers: a dazzling tapestry of love and faith, memory and imagination that questions what it means to look back and accept one’s place in history. In 1971, Harley Mann revisits his childhood, recounting his family's move to Florida’s swamplands—mere miles away from what would become Disney World—to join a community of Shakers.“Eerily timely. Can what’s gone wrong in the past offer keys to the future? Th...

From one of America’s most celebrated storytellers come three dark, interlocking tales about the residents of a rural New York town, and the shocking headlines that become their local mythologies.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 grow concerned when an enigmatic family move next door, and the children start sneaking over to b...

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The Angel on the RoofAfter nine critically acclaimed novels, Russell Banks has firmly established himself as one of the great American novelists. But throughout his career Banks has also been a master of the short form, publishing four story collections, winning O. Henry and Best American Short Story Awards and other prizes, and contributing stories to such publications as Esquire, New American Review, Antaeus, Mississippi Review, and Partisia...

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Bone, cioè osso: un ragazzo di tredici anni costretto ad andarsene di casa e a vivere alla giornata arrangiandosi ai margini della società opulenta di una cittadina del nordest degli Stati Uniti. Viene battezzato così dai nuovi amici che incontra "sulla strada", dopo essere stato cacciato dalla madre per aver rubato una collezione di monete antiche per procurarsi la marijuana. In realtà le sue difficoltà s...

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From one of America's most beloved storytellers-a profound novel about belief, betrayal, and the transformation of one corner of the country. In 1971, a property speculator named Harley Mann begins recording his life story onto a reel-to-reel machine. Reflecting on his childhood in the early 20th century, Harley recounts that after his father's sudden death, his family migrated down to Florida's swamplands-mere miles away from what would becom...

ABDli cagdas yazar Russell Banks karanliklara, günümüzün gölgede kalan dünyalarina ürkmeden, cekinmeden giriyor.Cinsel suctan hüküm giymis 21 yasindaki Kid ve üstün zekasiyla kücük yastan itibaren dikkat cekmis Profesör etrafinda gelisen roman, olaylarin örgüsü, mekan kurgusu ve karakterleri ile okuru gerceklerin esigine kadar tasiyor Yalin, mesafeli ve ahlakci olmadan ahlaki bir dille düskünleri, dislanmislari, manipüle edilenleri anlatirken ...

A searing novel about memory, abandonment, and betrayal from the acclaimed and bestselling Russell Banks At the center of Foregone is famed Canadian American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Fife, now in his late seventies, is dying of cancer in Montreal and has agreed to a final interview in which he is determined to bare all his secre...

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A searing novel about memory, abandonment, and betrayal from the acclaimed and bestselling Russell Banks At the center of Foregone is famed Canadian American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Fife, now in his late seventies, is dying of cancer in Montreal and has agreed to a final interview in which he is determined to bare all his secre...