Success Stories

In Sucess Stories, an exceptionally varied yet coherent collection, Russell Banks proves himself one of the most astute and forceful writers in America today. Queen for a Day, Success Story, and Adultery trace fortunes of the Painter family in there pursuit of and retreat from the American dream. Banks also explores the ethos of rampant materialism in a group of contemporary moral fables. The Fish is an evocating parable of faith and greed set in a Southeast Asian village, The Gully tells of the profitability of violence and the ironies of upward mobility in a Latin American shantytown, and Chrildren's Story explores the repressed rage that boils beneath the surface of relationships between parents and children and between citizens of the first and third worlds.

• Author
• Russell Banks

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 192

• Publisher
• Harper Perennial

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-06-092719-6

• EAN
• 9780060927196

• Genres
• fiction

• Release date
• 1996