Affliction by Russell Banks [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1989 • Harper & Row

Affliction by Russell Banks

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1989] HARPER & ROW

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition. 

Dust jacket shows mild shelf / edge wear.  Ships in a new custom fit jacket protector.

Book itself is excellent.  One mild frayed spot to edge of upper boards.  Reads like new.

ABOUT THE BOOK

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. Told by his articulate, equally scarred younger brother, Wade's story becomes as spellbinding and inexorable as a fuse burning its way to the dynamite.