Affliction
By: Russell Banks.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
Subjects: Mentally ill -- Fiction; Brothers -- Fiction; New Hampshire -- Fiction
Description: Wade Whitehouse is an improbable protagonist for a tragedy. A well-digger and policeman in a bleak New Hampshire town, he is a former high-school star gone to beer fat, a loner with a mean streak. Wade comes to loom in one's mind as a blue-collar American Everyman afflicted by the dark secret of the macho tradition.