Read "Affliction" by Russell Banks available from Rakuten Kobo. Wade Whitehouse is an improbable protagonist for a tragedy. A well-digger and policeman in a bleak New Hampshire town, h. · Russell Banks was born on Ma in a small town in Massachusetts but raised in North Hampshire. Banks choose the title Affliction, inspired by the writings of Simone Weil the twentieth century philosopher. He had been looking for a word that suggested disease and suffering. It also needed to have a moral dimension. · A small-town New Hampshire cop's poisonous heritage of darkness and violence is drawn to the surface with tragic consequences for those in his orbit in "Affliction," an early confirmation of Russell Banks' status as an elite American writer. "Sometimes you just forget who you are," Wade Whitehouse says. "Especially when you're sick of who you are."4/5.
The Generations of Abuse: AFFLICTION by Russell Banks (Harper Row: $; pp.; ) By Eric Larsen Aug. 20, 12 AM PT. ''Affliction,'' Russell Banks's sixth novel, is psychological portraiture of a high order, and like all profound portraits it finds in its subject astonishing contradictions. Self-destructive yet resilient, naive and quick-witted, Wade wants desperately to be a good father, but whenever he is alone with Jill, things begin to go seethingly wrong. Read "Affliction" by Russell Banks available from Rakuten Kobo. Wade Whitehouse is an improbable protagonist for a tragedy. A well-digger and policeman in a bleak New Hampshire town, h.
Affliction by Russell Banks () Russell Banks is a recent find for me and this book - the third of his I have read following Continental Drift and The. Russell Banks is the author of sixteen works of fiction, many of which depict seismic events in US history, such as the fictionalized journey of John Brown in Cloudsplitter. His work has been translated into twenty languages and has received numerous international prizes, and two of his novels-The Sweet Hereafter and Affliction-have been made into award-winning films. Wade 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.
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