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Hamilton Stark audiobook
- By: Russell Banks
- Narrator: Sean Runnette
- Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: November 12, 2013
- Language: English
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Hamilton Stark Audiobook Summary
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.
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Hamilton Stark Audiobook Narrator
Sean Runnette is the narrator of Hamilton Stark audiobook that was written by Russell Banks
Russell Banks, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, was one of America’s most prestigious fiction writers, a past president of the International Parliament of Writers, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been translated into twenty languages and he received numerous prizes and awards, including the Common Wealth Award for Literature. He died in January 2023 at the age of eighty-two.
About the Author(s) of Hamilton Stark
Russell Banks is the author of Hamilton Stark
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Hamilton Stark Full Details
| Narrator | Sean Runnette |
| Length | 9 hours 52 minutes |
| Author | Russell Banks |
| Publisher | HarperAudio |
| Release date | November 12, 2013 |
| ISBN | 9780062311030 |
Additional info
The publisher of the Hamilton Stark is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780062311030.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
Goodreads Reviews
Brandt
August 05, 2015
Now THIS is what I come to expect when reading Russell Banks. Banks, when he is at his best, tells stories of the relationships between incredibly flawed humans. While the "hero" of the work is the irascible miscreant, Hamilton Stark, the story is actually about those who would dare to love or admire such a person and whether such a person deserves such love and admiration and if those who would do so are in the wrong for doing so. Hamilton Stark also seems to derive from a point in Banks' career where he believed he needed to take stylistic in his writing, perhaps believing the story telling was not strong enough to stand on its own, as it would in his later works. The stylistic chances that don't pay off in Family Life, do pay off here (things such as four chapter fours and a chapter with a giant footnote that in a normal novel would be a chapter on its own--but in context they both work.) Definitely a must read for those wanting to get to know the works of Russell Banks.
Rich
April 24, 2012
A strange format for such a heartfelt novel. Even though I read it years ago quotes from this book still haunt my thoughts occasionally.
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