Lost Memory of Skin
A Fiction, Novels, Contemporary book. He cant quite picture God except as a huge ball of light with an old mans deep voice...
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.
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- Pages: 417 pages
- ISBN: 9780061857638 / 61857637
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Secrets and lies, they eat your insides until all you have left is a hard thin skin that covers you like the shell of one of those eggs you poke a little hole in and draw out its eggy contents before you dye it for Easter. Russell Banks, Lost Memory of Skin Boys like it when you talk to them as if they were grown menat least he always did when he was a kidbecause they pretend thats what they are anyhow, grown-up men, and they do it for their entire lives. Russell Banks, Lost Memory of Skin What you believe matters, however. Its all anyone has to act on. And since what you do is who you are, your actions define you. If you dont believe anything is true simply because you cant logically prove whats true, you wont do anything. You wont be anything. Youll end up spending your life in a rocking chair looking out at the horizon waiting for an answer that never comes. You might as well be dead. Its an old philosophical problem. Russell Banks, Lost Memory of Skin
This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. In 1952 Ralph Ellison's seminal novel, Invisible Man, was published. No, not the one that was made into a film with Claude Raines. Ellison's Invisible Man was about how the black man in America was invisible to the wider culture. His towering novel looked... I like books that deal with social issues. Lost Memory of Skin did that with a topic that is not common in current fiction but is a significant but mostly hidden issue: homeless convicted sex offenders. It humanizes people who are most commonly reviled and helps us realize that this is our problem and not just theirs and may have something... This book ended up being my top adult fiction pick of 2011, which should not be such a surprise considering that Banks The Sweet Hereafter is pretty much my top adult fiction pick of all time. What is evidenced in both that and this novel is that Banks has a tremendous empathy for his characters; hes able to look into the darkness of...
