The Angel on the Roof

The Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks (2000) is a collection of short stories by Russell Banks. It consists of a total of thirty-one previously published stories, including twenty-two stories that appeared in earlier short story collections, along with nine that were previously uncollected.

Contents

Twenty-two of the thirty-one stories that Banks selected for this volume were published in four earlier collections, although Banks writes that many of the stories "have been revised for this edition".[1] The previously collected stories were originally published in the following volumes by Banks: Searching for Survivors (New York: Fiction Collective/ Braziller, 1975); Trailerpark (New York: HarperCollins, 1981); Success Stories (New York: HarperCollins, 1986).

In his "Note" appended at the end of this volume, Russell Banks writes the following:

As this book is published, I am turning sixty, and these stories represent the best work I have done in the form over the thirty-seven years since I began trying to write in prose — at least that’s my hope.[1]

Previously collected stories

The following is a list of the previously collected stories republished in The Angel on the Roof, under the titles of the collections in which they originally appeared:

From Searching for Survivors (1975)
From The New World (1978)
From Trailerpark (1981)
From Success Stories (1986)

Uncollected stories

The previously uncollected stories in The Angel on the Roof are as follows (with the original publication/periodical in parenthesis):

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 Banks, Russell. The Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks (Kindle Locations 7435-7437). Harper Perennial, 2011.

References


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