"Of the many writers working in the great tradition today, one of the
best is Russell Banks." --New York Times
?"Like our living literary giants Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon,
Russell Banks is a great writer wrestling with the hidden secrets and
explosive realities of this country." --Cornel West
Lost Memory of Skin is a provocative novel of spiritual and moral
redemption from Russell Banks, the author of Affliction, Rule of the
Bone, Continental Drift, Cloudsplitter, and other acclaimed masterworks
of contemporary American fiction.
Uncompromising and complex, Lost Memory of Skin is the story of The
Kid, a young sex offender recently released from prison and forced to
live beneath a South Florida causeway. When The Professor, a man of
enormous intellect and appetite, takes The Kid under his wing, his own
startling past will cause upheavals in both of their worlds. At once
lyrical, witty, and disturbing, Banks's extraordinary novel showcases
his abilities as a world-class storyteller as well as his incisive
understanding of the dangerous contradictions and hypocrisies of modern
American society.