The Village Voice, October 20th, 2004
In Russell Banks's latest novel-cum-confession, Monrovia is hell and chimps are free THE DARLING By Russell Banks HarperCollins, 392 pp. $26
HANNAH AND HER DREAMERS
Russell Banks is a major American novelist, a maestro of loss. Yet his name, easily confused with writers like Russell Baker or lain Banks, somehow evades instant recognition., It isn't until you mention Cloudsplitter, Banks's 1998 bestseller inspired by aboli-tionist John Brown, or the great film versions of TAe Sweet Hereafter and Affliction, that his name clicks into place as an author drawn to the thwarted arc of mundane live...
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