{"product_id":"affliction-isbn-9780060920074","title":"Affliction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Banks has taken on a profound theme, the ruinous and awful affliction of violence that seems to live like a secret blood-disease handed down in men like Wade. . . . He turns it into a living art that can bring recognition and awe.\" —\u003cem\u003e Los Angeles Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A masterwork of contemporary American fiction\" (\u003cem\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e) from one of the most acclaimed and important writers of our time\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWade 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's 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.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eWade 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.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"Banks has taken on a profound theme, the ruinous and awful affliction of violence that seems to live like a secret blood-disease handed down in men like Wade....He turns it into a living art that can bring recognition and awe.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A compelling portrait of a man. . . at once moving and disturbing.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichiko Kakutani, New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Magnificently convincing . . . beautifully sustained, suspenseful.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Russell Banks is a writer of extraordinary power.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGail Caldwell, Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What makes \u003cem\u003eAffliction\u003c\/em\u003e remarkable is that Banks make a cowardly, violent man profoundly understandable, as Dreiser did with Clyde Griffiths in \u003cem\u003eAn American Tragedy\u003c\/em\u003e.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887329669349,"sku":"NP9780060920074","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780060920074.jpg?v=1730225907","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/affliction-isbn-9780060920074","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}