Hamilton Stark by Banks, Russell - 1996-04-26

PerfectBound, 1996. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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.

Harper Perennial, 1996. 1st Perennial edition.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Remainder mark, bottom edge. Cover pricing sticker.. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. Audience: General/trade. Fiction: The man Hamilton Stark is a formation in part of New Hampshire granite, a pipe fitter by profession, ex-husband by habit, father by circumstance, and curmudgeon on purpose. He also is at times funny, honest, a good dancer, and rakishly handsome. Banks has placed his narrator at Stark's side as that character tries to understand Stark and to write about him.

New York: Harper Collins. Good with no dust jacket. 1996. Paperback. 0060977051 . First Few Pages Bent at Front Top Corner .

Harper Perennial, 1996-06-05. Softcover. Very Good.

HarperCollins, 6/5/1996 12:00:01 AM. paperback. Good. 0.8000 in x 7.8000 in x 5.0000 in.

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Paperback / softback. New.

HarperCollins, 1996. Paperback. New. 308 pages. 8.00x5.50x0.75 inches.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.