Trailerpark (31 page)

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Authors: Russell Banks

Tags: #Fiction, #Literary

A Novel

ISBN 0-06-093086-1 (paperback)

A dazzling re-creation of the political and social landscape before the Civil War.

THE ANGEL ON THE ROOF

The Stories of Russell Banks

ISBN 0-06-093125-6 (paperback)

Thirty years of Banks's best short fiction, including eight new stories.

RULE OF THE BONE

A Novel

ISBN 0-06-092724-0 (paperback)

A journey of self-discovery through a world of magic, violence, betrayal, and redemption.

AFFLICTION

ISBN 0-06-092007-6 (paperback)

Spellbinding and inexorable as a fuse burning its way to a stick of dynamite.

FAMILY LIFE

ISBN 0-06-097704-3 (paperback)

Transforms the dramas of domesticity into the story of a royal family in a mythical contemporary kingdom.

HAMILTON STARK

ISBN 0-06-097705-1 (paperback)

A thoroughly engaging story of life on the cold edge of New England.

THE RELATION OF MY IMPRISONMENT

ISBN 0-06-097680-2 (paperback)

A work of fiction utilizing a form invented in the seventeenth century by imprisoned Puritan divines.

SUCCESS STORIES

ISBN 0-06-092719-4 (paperback)

Explores the ethos of rampant materialism in a group of conremporary moral fables.

TRAILERPARK

ISBN 0-06-097706-X (paperback)

A portrait of New England life that is at once dark, witty, and revealing.

THE BOOK OF JAMAICA

ISBN 0-06-097707-8 (paperback)

“A compelling novel… Banks achieves effects at once beautiful and brutal. A virtuoso performance.”
—Publishers Weekly

Copyright

TRAILERPARK
. Copyright © 1981 by Russell Banks. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1981 by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc. It is reprinted here by arrangement with the author.

The following stories have appeared elsewhere: “The Right Way” (
Boston Globe Magazine
); “Politics” (
Shenandoah
); “The Child Screams and Looks Back at You” (
Fiction
); “Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat” (
Mississippi Review
); “The Burden” (
Ploughshares
); “What Noni Hubner Did Not Tell the Police About Jesus” (
Sun & Moon
); and “Principles” (
Aspen Anthology
).

First HarperPerennial edition 1996.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Banks, Russell, 1940–

Trailerpark / Russell Banks

p. cm.

ISBN 0-06-097706-X

1. New England—Social life and customs—Fiction. 2. Trailer camps—New England—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3552.A49T7       1996

813'.54—dc20

95-53310

EPub Edition © SEPTEMBER 2011 ISBN: 9780062123268

05
/RRD 10

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