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by Russell Banks

ISBN: 0060977051
ISBN13: 978-0060977054
Language: English
Publisher: HarpPeren (April 26, 1996)
Pages: 308
Category: Contemporary
Subategory: Literature

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for Mary-still, and again. Chapter 8 100 Selected, Uninteresting Things Done and Said by Hamilton Stark. Chapter 9 The Uroboros: Being a Further Declension of the Central Image.

for Mary-still, and again. The individual has a host of shadows, all of which resemble him and for the moment have an equal claim to authenticity. Kierkegaard, Repetition. Chapter 10 Graveside. Chapter 11 An End. About the Author.

FREE shipping on qualifying offers. He is the villain of five marriages and the father of a daughter so obsessed that she has been writing a book about him for years. Hamilton Stark is a New Hampshire pipe fitter and the sole inhabitant of the house from which he evicted his own mother. Hamilton Stark is a boor.

Russell Banks at the 2011 Texas Book Festival. Many have admired Russell Banks' realistic writing, which often explores American social dilemmas and moral struggles. Hamilton Stark (1978). The Book of Jamaica (1980). 1940-03-28) March 28, 1940 (age 79) Newton, Massachusetts, United States. Scholars have variously compared Banks's fiction to the works of Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, and Andre Dubus. The Relation of My Imprisonment (1983). Continental Drift (1985).

He has received numerous prizes and awards for his work, including the O. Henry and Best American Short Story Awards. B. Clark University Professor at Princeton. MoreLess Show More Show Less.

for Mary - still, and again.

Hamilton Stark is a New Hampshire pipe fitter and the sole inhabitant of the house from which he evicted his own mother. Hamilton Stark is a boor, a misanthrope, a handsome man: funny, passionately honest, and a good dancer. The narrator, a middle-aged writer, decides to write about Stark as a hero whose anger and solitude represent passion and wisdom. At the same time that he tells Hamilton Stark's story, he describes the process of writing the novel and the.

Since this novel, Russell Banks has gone on to write other books filled with characters who are difficult, hard to understand people. Cloudsplitter (about John Brown) and Darling (which features various murderous types) come to mind. This earlier book about a fictional character, Hamilton Stark, though, might be among the worst protagonists ever written about. On the surface, Hamilton comes off as the result of damage done in a fraught family situation.

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Hamilton Stark is a New Hampshire pipe fitter and the sole inhabitant of the house from which he evicted his own . He is the villain of five marriages and the father of a daughter so obsessed that she has been writing a book about him for years

Hamilton Stark is a New Hampshire pipe fitter and the sole inhabitant of the house from which he evicted his own mother. He is the villain of five marriage. At the same time that he tells Hamilton Stark's story, he describes the process of writing the novel and the complicated connections between truth and fiction.

Hamilton Stark is a New Hampshire pipe fitter and the sole inhabitant of the house from which he evicted his own mother. He is the villain of five marriages and the father of a daughter so obsessed that she has been writing a book about him for years. Hamilton Stark is a boor, a misanthrope, a handsome man: funny, passionately honest, and a good dancer. The narrator, a middle-aged writer, decides to write about Stark as a hero whose anger and solitude represent passion and wisdom. At the same time that he tells Hamilton Stark's story, he describes the process of writing the novel and the complicated connections between truth and fiction. As Stark slips in and out of focus, maddeningly elusive and fascinatingly complex, this beguiling novel becomes at once a compelling meditation on identity and a thoroughly engaging story of life on the cold edge of New England.

Comments:
Carrot
It's hard to keep reading about someone you don't like and whose behavior is hard to understand. I do not recommend it.

Onaxan
I found "Hamilton Stark" to be an unexpected page-turner. Hamilton Stark, the fictional man, is an unforgettable creation. The novel, eschewing conventional plotting, clips along fluidly and swiftly nonetheless. Experimental fiction is rarely this readable (certainly Banks' "Family Life," and "Relation of My Imprisonment" are not).

The daily-life-variety exploits of New Hampshire pipe fitter Hamilton Stark are a guilty pleasure to follow. As the man's habits and life history unfold, one wonders, with great eagerness, what absurdity of will and character will be exhibited next. Through what strange behavior will he lose his 5th wife, for example, in comparison to how he lost #4, etc.

And one wonders what has so moved the highly educated, intellectual, borderline-sycophantic narrator- and at an earlier point Stark's sharp-witted estranged daughter- to revere, worship, and indulge in the compulsion to decipher and document for the ages, the life and ways of this near-feral, anti-social, misanthropic, eccentrically-principled lone wolf New England plumber.

Maybe the secret to the Hamilton Stark Phenomenon lies in the generations-buried influence of the pre English-settlement Abenooki Natives?

A uniquely American character and novel, with curious epic undertones. Possibly a work of genius. Highly recommended.

White gold
Russell Banks has been a revelation to me in the books I have read - Continental Drift, Trailer Park and The Reserve - but he really tests the reader's tolerance level with this pretentious piece.

It is the kind of book I would never normally touch - as novel about a novelist writing a novel - but I gave Banks the benefit of the doubt.

It seemed a good decision at first and we were quickly in familiar Banks' territory of trailer park failures who can't fit into American society and blaze their own eccentric trails.

The main characters - Stark and his daughter - are well drawn and the backdrop is authentic but, unfortunately, Banks decided to abandon straightforward narrative for a lazy take it or leave style that left this reader bewildered.

Events are seen from different angles and viewpoints and it is difficult to follow.

This approach can be rewarding, depending on the writer's skill, but Banks just treats us readers as bystanders and thinks we should sit back and accept working sketches, notes and "addendums" as the real thing.

One chapter consists of 100 notes about the main character. Another is a monologue by one of Stark's wives moaning about his faults. There are even scrawled "handwritten" notes.

Much of it is good. Most of it is not. It is certainly not a novel. Read it at your peril.

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