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The Darling

The Darling

by RussellBanks (Author)

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    Paperback 2006

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Synopsis

Hannah Musgrave is on the run: from her adoring parents, her many lovers, even from herself. As a young woman, she worked for a Boston terrorist group which has put her on the FBI's most wanted list, forcing her to flee to Liberia in West Africa. There, she marries an ambitious young politician and settles down. But, Hannah can never quite bridge the differences between herself and her African husband. Liberia is a country on the verge of explosion and the threat of civil war is ever present. The violent events that follow touch everyone close to Hannah and, once again, she has to flee. This time, though, the past won't disappear.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 416
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 06 Mar 2006
ISBN 10: 0747578907
ISBN 13: 9780747578901
Book Overview: Banks is a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters For fans of The Poisonwood Bible and the work of William Boyd By the author of The Sweet Hereafter, also made into a film by Atom Egoyan starring Ian Holm

Media Reviews
'Urgent, passionate, compelling ... it deserves to stand beside Conrad and Greene' Guardian 'His are big novels, with daring, sweep and depth. In The Darling, he is working at full strength, and readers are in his debt' Washington Post 'With his trademark painterly consideration, Banks instills the lush landscape of war-torn Liberia and the bleak upstate farm (where Hannah grows organic vegetables and raises free-range chickens) with a brilliant intensity ... The Darling is a remarkable leap into the consciousness of a troubled mind' Los Angeles Times 'A satisfying, intensely moving tale. Unlike Hannah, Banks runs away from nothing. Those who despair of the modern novel, who wail that they just don't write books like they used to , should read him' Glasgow Herald
Author Bio
Russell Banks is the critically acclaimed author of Cloudsplitter, The Sweet Hereafter (the film by Atom Egoyan won the Grand Prix and International Critics Prize at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival), Rule of the Bone and Continental Drift, amongst others. A winner of numerous fellowships and prizes, he writes regularly for Vanity Fair, the New York Times Book Review, Esquire and Harper's. Russell Banks currently lives in upstate New York.