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Lost Memory of Skin

By: Russell Banks
Narrated by: Scott Shepherd
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“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

“Of the many writers working in the great tradition today, one of the best is Russell Banks.”
—New York Times

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.

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Very well written, compelling and moving. Banks dives deep into the world of the most stigmatised individuals in society through the Kid's character, to bring out the tragic consequences but also the extremely interesting thought process and emotional evolution. Both the Kid and the Professor are powerfully characterised in many aspects, and their peculiar relationship can make the reader (or most readers) completely drawn to the story and its outcome. My own personal experience has been deeply enriching and transformative in many ways. Although I often work in prison as an artist and I am used to a non-judgemental gaze towards all inmates, Lost Memory of Skin has allowed me to know much more about sex offending and its consequences and has provided a deeper understanding of what might bring some humans to commit such crimes. Scott Shepherd's voice and performance is outstanding, with subtle emotional nuances, and makes me want to listen to the book all over again.

Unforgettable, transformative and so necessary

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