The Reserve - Tapa blanda

"Banks's willingness to confront. the hard truths about the world we live in. goes a long way toward explaining his longstanding reputation as one of America's finest contemporary fiction writers." -- Boston Globe

."..sexy, almost guilty pleasure of a read..." -- Elle Magazine

"Banks ranks among our boldest artists." -- Boston Globe

."..Banks has immersed himself in the time he's writing about and manages to evoke Hemingway without ever aping his style..."--Christian Science Monitor

"A cool noir thriller...This is new and wonderful turf for this masterful storyteller."--William Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed and Roscoe

"[The Reserve]...holds lessons for our own time. It's a supremely well-written book..."--San Diego Union-Tribune

"[The Reserve] is beautifully and elegantly written, showing the author as a lover of language....[T]his powerful and beautiful Russell Banks novel is close to a masterpiece."--Deseret News

"The novel's strength...is the story Banks has to tell... 'The Reserve' captures the drama, not just of these characters' lives, but of this moment in American history."--Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"Banks peels back [the characters'] gloss so that we can enter their interior."--Cleveland Plain Dealer

."..this powerful and beautiful Russell Banks novel is close to a masterpiece."--Deseret Morning News

Losing her father to a heart attack on the same night she meets a politically liberal artist, scandal-marked heiress Vanessa Cole hides a dark family secret that takes her from the Adirondacks to war-torn Europe and threatens everyone she encounters. By the author of The Darling. (Historical Fiction)