Family Life
  • Published:
    Jun-1985
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    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    118
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In Family Life, Russell Banks's first novel, he transforms the dramas of domesticity into the story of a royal family in a mythical contemporary kingdom. Life inside this kingdom includes the king (dubbed "the Hearty" or "the Bluff"), who squeals angrily as is his wont; the queen, who, while pondering the mirror in her chambers, decides to write a book; three adolescent princes who are, respectively, a superb wrestler, a fanatical sports car driver, and a sullen drunk. Then there are the mysterious Green Man with a thing for princes; the Loon, who lives in a tree house designed by Christopher Wren; and a whole slew of murders, mayhem, coups, debauches, world tours, and love and loss and laughter.
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    • First Edition
    • Jun-1985
    • Avon
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0380002582
    • ISBN13: 9780380002580
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    • May-1988
    • Ballantine
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0345346939
    • ISBN13: 9780345346933
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    • May-1996
    • HarperPerennial
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0060977043
    • ISBN13: 9780060977047
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    • May-1988
    • Sun and Moon Press
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1557130051
    • ISBN13: 9781557130051
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    • May-1988
    • Sun and Moon Press
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1557130043
    • ISBN13: 9781557130044
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    • Apr-1996
    • HarperCollins
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 061496296X
    • ISBN13: 9780614962963
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    • Aug-1996
    • Borgo Press
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0809591960
    • ISBN13: 9780809591961
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    • Nov-2011
    • Harper
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0062123238
    • ISBN13: 9780062123237
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    • Nov-2011
    • HarperPerennial
    • eBook (Kindle)
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    • Nov-2013
    • Harper Perennial
    • eBook (Kindle)
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    • Dec-2013
    • HarperCollins
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0062335812
    • ISBN13: 9780062335814
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    • Nov-2013
    • Blackstone Audiobooks
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1482968673
    • ISBN13: 9781482968675
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    • Nov-2013
    • Blackstone Audiobooks
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1482968681
    • ISBN13: 9781482968682



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