num_pages: 560
description:  An Omnibus Edition of Three Classic Early Novels from the Critically Acclaimed Author of Cloudsplitter and Affliction Family Life: Russell Banks's first novel is an adult fairy tale of a royal family in a mythical contemporary kingdom where the myriad dramas of domesticity blend with an outrageous slew of murders mayhem coups debauches world tours and love in all guises transcendent or otherwise. Hamilton Stark: This tale of a solitary boorish misanthropic New Hampshire pipe fitterthe sole inhabitant of the house from which he evicted his own motheris at once a compelling meditation on identity and a thoroughly engaging story of life on the cold edge of New England. The Relation of My Imprisonment: Utilizing a form invented by imprisoned seventeenth-century Puritan divinesan utterly sincere and detailed if highly artificial recounting of great sufferingBanks's novel is a remarkably inventive lovingly good-humored argument exploration and map of the caged religious mind. 
language: English
title: Outer Banks: Three Early Novels
publisher: Harper Perennial