Lost Memory of Skin

"Like our living literary giants Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon, Russell Banks is a great writer wrestling with the hidden secrets and explosive realities of this country."
--Cornel West

"Of the many writers working in the great tradition today, one of the best is Russell Banks."
--New York Times

Lost Memory of Skin is a provocative novel of spiritual and moral redemption from Russell Banks, the author of Affliction, Rule of the Bone, Continental Drift, Cloudsplitter, and other acclaimed masterworks of contemporary American fiction. Uncompromising and complex, Lost Memory of Skin is the story of The Kid, a young sex offender recently released from prison and forced to live beneath a South Florida causeway. When The Professor, a man of enormous intellect and appetite, takes The Kid under his wing, his own startling past will cause upheavals in both of their worlds. At once lyrical, witty, and disturbing, Banks's extraordinary novel showcases his abilities as a world-class storyteller as well as his incisive understanding of the dangerous contradictions and hypocrisies of modern American society.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 07/17/2012
ISBN: 9780061857645
Pages: 432
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 1.30d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 08/12/2012 pg. 26