The Angel on the Roof
The Stories of Russell Banks
By Russell Banks
(Harper Perennial, Paperback, 9780060931254, 528pp.)
Publication Date: May 2001
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Hardcover
Categories: Government - U.S. Government, Literary, Short Stories (single author)
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With The Angel on the Roof, Russell Banks offers readers an astonishing collection of thirty years of his short fiction, revised especially for this volume and highlighted by the inclusion of nine new stories that are among the finest he has ever written. As is characteristic of all of Bank's works, these stories resonate with irony and compassion, honesty and insight, extending into the vast territory of the heart and the world, from working-class New England to Florida and the Caribbean and Africa. Broad in scope and rich in imagination, The Angel on the Roof affirms Russell Banks's place as one of the masters of American storytelling.
Russell Banks is one of Americas most prestigious fiction writers, a past president of the International Parliament of Writers, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been translated into twenty languages and has received numerous prizes and awards, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize. He lives in upstate New York and Miami, Florida.











