Banks, Russell
Banks, Russell( 1940– ),born in Newton, Mass., educated at Colgate and at the University of North Carolina, is a novelist who first had a career as publisher and editor of Lillabulero Press 1966–1975. He published a novel and a book of short stories before achieving national recognition with Continental Drift (1986). This novel moves between two protagonists: Bob Dubois, a New Hampshire oil-burner repairman who, restless and dissatisfied with his life, moves his family to Florida where he tries to manage his brother's liquor store; and Vanise Dorsinville, a Haitian woman with an infant son who becomes a boat person to emigrate to the U.S. The stories interlock and drift to a fatal intersection. Affliction (1989), set in working-class New Hampshire, is about friendship, rivalry, and murder. In The Sweet Hereafter (1991), again set in New Hampshire, a woman schoolbus driver is ostracized by the entire community after a...
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