This critical guide establishes novelist Russell Banks as one of the leaders in the postmodern, neorealist tradition of American fiction and aims to extend the context of debate around Banks's
work. Early chapters cover his life and his efforts to find his voice in his early stories and novellas. Subsequent chapters on 11 individual works, chronologically from Hamilton Stark through
The Reserve, discuss Banks's explorations of race, class, sexual and family relations, popular culture, and landscape. The book concludes with a discussion of Banks and postmodern realism.
McEneaney has taught at SUNY Purchase College and St. Thomas Aquinas College. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
