Searching for Survivors: 14 Stories

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153 pp. "Set mostly in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, 'Searching for Survivors', with an old-fashioned Yankee precision and moral scrupulousness, explores contemporary forms of c ertain native American obsessions. In these stories, Russell Banks has translated and retold the tale of the Puritan "errand into the wilderness," portraying that errand as a dark compulsion and the wilderness as a tangle of guilt and discontent, revealing, as the fruits of that mission, habitual cruelty, separation, and finally, self-exile." Show more