The Angel on the Roof - Poche

Maugham, Kipling, Greene : the great short-story writers illuminate their worlds with a startling, unexpected vividness...Certainly that's true of Russell Banks, one of the few contemporary short- story writers who can bear comparison with those masters of the art. His new collection triumphantly confirms his rightful place as fiche finest exponent of the delicate art of short-story writing today. Written over the part 30 years, these spare, elegant and tender portraits of American life, among the trailer-parka and diners, evoking fading hopes and lost dreams, weave their magic like the finest chamber music : never a wasted word, nor a discordant sentence. And every one haunts the memory long after the book lies closed at your side.