American spirits / Russell Banks.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2024]Edition: First editionDescription: 220 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780593536773
- 0593536770
Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Fiction | New | BANKS, RUSSELL | Checked out | 05/31/2024 | 33111011119159 | |||
Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | New | BANKS, RUSSELL | Available | 33111011324585 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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 grows concerned when an enigmatic family moves next door, and the children start sneaking over to beg for help. Two dangerous criminals kidnap an elderly couple and begin blackmailing their grandson, demanding that he pay back what he owes.
Suspenseful, thrilling, and expertly crafted, American Spirits explores the hostile undercurrents of our communities and American politics at large, as well as the ways local tragedies can be both devastating and, somehow, everyday. Ushering the reader through the town of Sam Dent, Russell Banks has etched yet another brilliant entry into the bedrock of American fiction.
"Three interlocking stories focusing on the residents of a town called Sam Dent, the undercurrent of the Trump movement in America, and a series of local tragedies"-- Provided by publisher.
Nowhere man -- Homeschooling -- Kidnapped.