Foregone is a novel by Russell Banks. The protagonist is Leonard Fife, a 77-year-old documentary filmmaker who is dying of cancer. Fife requests to be interviewed on camera before he dies. He was born in the United States, but he has lived in Canada since the late-1960s. He says that he has often hidden or lied about his past, and he wishes to tell his true life story before he dies. The novel explores themes of memory, identity, regret, love, and mortality.
"No modern author writes more perceptively about ordinary men's stumbling quest for the American grail of material comfort and self-respect," remarked Salon.com contributor Cynthia Joyce regarding the...
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Russell Banks resists categories; yet as one looks at the American short fiction written in the last quarter of the twentieth century, the temptation is to group Banks with Raymond Carver, Richard For...
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Russell Banks has been publishing innovative fiction for more than twenty-five years, gaining praise from critics for his short stories and novels. Although he is primarily a realist, he has experimen...
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Russell Banks
Russell Banks