RIP Award-winning author Russell Banks. based novels in native Northeast & imagined dream & downfall of blue-collar workers to abolitionist John Brown

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i have all his books. i like books. books are a good thing.

"Cloudsplitter" is his masterpiece. but all his work is exceptional

Russell Banks, praised author of 'Cloudsplitter,' dies at 82

NEW YORK (AP) — Russell Banks, an award-winning fiction writer who rooted such novels as “Affliction” and “The Sweet Hereafter” in the wintry, rural communities of his native Northeast and imagined the dreams and downfalls of everyone from modern blue-collar workers to the radical abolitionist...

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