Success Stories

<p>In <em>Sucess Stories</em> an exceptionally varied yet coherent collection Russell Banks proves himself one of the most astute and forceful writers in America today. <em>Queen for a Day Success Story </em> and <em>Adultery</em> trace fortunes of the Painter family in there pursuit of and retreat from the American dream. Banks also explores the ethos of rampant materialism in a group of contemporary moral fables. <em>The Fish</em> is an evocating parable of faith and greed set in a Southeast Asian village <em>The Gully</em> tells of the profitability of violence and the ironies of upward mobility in a Latin American shantytown and <em>Chrildren's Story</em> explores the repressed rage that boils beneath the surface of relationships between parents and children and between citizens of the first and third worlds.</p>