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Foregone free downloads5/5/2024 ![]() ![]() “Leonard Fife, the protagonist of Russell Banks’s furiously driven new novel, has been hiding all his life-from the world and from himself … As always, Banks’s prose has remarkable force to it … To his credit, Banks has never solicited his readers’ approval of his characters, and many are unlikely to be charmed by Leo Fife. But the story that unspools in front of the camera and an intimate chorus of observers, including Fife’s wife, his nurse, and his acolyte and former star student Malcolm Macleod, is confoundingly unexpected, the dark and affecting account of a man entirely unknown to all.Ī searing novel about memory, betrayal, love, and the faint grace note of redemption, Russell Banks’s Foregone is a daring and resonant work about the scope of one man’s mysterious life, revealed through the fragments of his recovered past. In his late seventies and dying of cancer, famed Canadian-American documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders who fled to Canada to avoid Vietnam, has agreed to one final interview, determined to bare all his secrets and demythologize his mythologized life. ![]() ![]() “Terrifically compelling … In this complex and powerful novel, we come face to face with the excruciating allure of redemption.”- Washington Post A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2021 ![]()
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