Lost Memory of Skin - Softcover

"One of our finest novelists gives voice to the unspeakable...[A] compelling story"--O, the Oprah Magazine

"A ompelling story... one of those rare, strange, category-defying fictions that grabs hold of you... It's hard to shake it off. And even when you do, it leaves a mark."--Chicago Tribune

"Among contemporary writers giving voice to America's beleaguered working class, Russell Banks may have no peer...this oddly unsettling, beautifully crafted novel...raise[s] fascinating issues."--San Francisco Chronicle

"His boldest imaginative leap yet into the invisible margins of society... Lost Memory of Skin is a haunting book."--Wall Street Journal

"Mr. Banks knows plot, and incorporates intriguing complications to keep the novel building power all the way to the end."--Pittsburg Post-Gazette

"Banks reveals the two [characters] with tenderness and trenchant wit, in a story that, not surprisingly, plumbs the depth of human despair and resilience. If that prowess is predictable, Skin is bound to leave you shaken and strangely reassured."--USA Today

"Like our living literary giants Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon, Russell Banks is a great writer wrestling with the hidden secrets and explosive realities of this country."--Cornel West

"[It] is a pleasure to see [Banks'] gift turned to big, semisurreal characters. The grand, rambling examination of guilt and blame takes place against a ravishingly bleak backdrop, lyrically described, while each revelation of character is like a quiet explosion."--Time Out New York

"Russell Banks's work presents without falsehood and with tough affection the uncompromising moral voice of our time... I trust his portraits of America more than any other--the burden of it, the need for it, the hell of it."--Michael Ondaatje

"Russell Banks really does know how to pull his readers into a dark, dark world only to deliver us into the light."--Boston Globe

Taking up residence with other convicted sex offenders, the Kid, on probation after doing time for an affair with an underage girl, forms a tentative partnership with the Professor, a university sociologist who finds him the perfect subject for his research, until he is faced with a new kind of moral decision. Reprint.