# Outer Banks - Paperback

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by **Russell Banks** (Author)

**An Omnibus Edition of Three Classic Early Novels from the Critically Acclaimed Author of _Cloudsplitter_ and _Affliction_**

**"Banks has skillfully used his repertoire of contemporary techniques to write a novel that is classically American**\--**a dark, but sometimes funny, romance with echoes of Poe and Melville."** \-- **_Washington Post_**

**"A marvelously written little book, fascinatingly intricate, yet deceptively simple. Well worth reading more than once." -- _New York Times Book Review_**

_Family Life:_ Russell Banks's first novel is an adult fairy tale of a royal family in a mythical contemporary kingdom where the myriad dramas of domesticity blend with an outrageous slew of murders, mayhem, coups, debauches, world tours, and love in all guises, transcendent or otherwise.

_Hamilton Stark:_ This tale of a solitary, boorish, misanthropic New Hampshire pipe fitter--the sole inhabitant of the house from which he evicted his own mother--is at once a compelling meditation on identity and a thoroughly engaging story of life on the cold edge of New England.

_The Relation of My Imprisonment:_ Utilizing a form invented by imprisoned seventeenth-century Puritan divines--an utterly sincere and detailed, if highly artificial, recounting of great suffering--Banks's novel is a remarkably inventive, lovingly good-humored argument, exploration, and map of the caged religious mind.

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An Omnibus Edition of Three Classic Early Novels from the Critically Acclaimed Author of _Cloudsplitter_ and _Affliction_

_Family Life:_ Russell Banks's first novel is an adult fairy tale of a royal family in a mythical contemporary kingdom where the myriad dramas of domesticity blend with an outrageous slew of murders, mayhem, coups, debauches, world tours, and love in all guises, transcendent or otherwise.

_Hamilton Stark:_ This tale of a solitary, boorish, misanthropic New Hampshire pipe fitter--the sole inhabitant of the house from which he evicted his own mother--is at once a compelling meditation on identity and a thoroughly engaging story of life on the cold edge of New England.

_The Relation of My Imprisonment:_ Utilizing a form invented by imprisoned seventeenth-century Puritan divines--an utterly sincere and detailed, if highly artificial, recounting of great suffering--Banks's novel is a remarkably inventive, lovingly good-humored argument, exploration, and map of the caged religious mind.

**Number of Pages:** 560

**Dimensions:** 0.98 x 8 x 5.68 IN

**Publication Date:** June 24, 2008

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