A Novel
ISBN 0-06-093086-1 (paperback)
A dazzling re-creation of the political and social landscape before the Civil War.
THE ANGEL ON THE ROOF
The Stories of Russell Banks
ISBN 0-06-093125-6 (paperback)
Thirty years of Banks's best short fiction, including eight new stories.
RULE OF THE BONE
A Novel
ISBN 0-06-092724-0 (paperback)
A journey of self-discovery through a world of magic, violence, betrayal, and redemption.
AFFLICTION
ISBN 0-06-092007-6 (paperback)
Spellbinding and inexorable as a fuse burning its way to a stick of dynamite.
FAMILY LIFE
ISBN 0-06-097704-3 (paperback)
Transforms the dramas of domesticity into the story of a royal family in a mythical contemporary kingdom.
HAMILTON STARK
ISBN 0-06-097705-1 (paperback)
A thoroughly engaging story of life on the cold edge of New England.
THE RELATION OF MY IMPRISONMENT
ISBN 0-06-097680-2 (paperback)
A work of fiction utilizing a form invented in the seventeenth century by imprisoned Puritan divines.
SUCCESS STORIES
ISBN 0-06-092719-4 (paperback)
Explores the ethos of rampant materialism in a group of conremporary moral fables.
TRAILERPARK
ISBN 0-06-097706-X (paperback)
A portrait of New England life that is at once dark, witty, and revealing.
THE BOOK OF JAMAICA
ISBN 0-06-097707-8 (paperback)
“A compelling novel⦠Banks achieves effects at once beautiful and brutal. A virtuoso performance.”
âPublishers Weekly
TRAILERPARK
. Copyright © 1981 by Russell Banks. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1981 by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc. It is reprinted here by arrangement with the author.
The following stories have appeared elsewhere: “The Right Way” (
Boston Globe Magazine
); “Politics” (
Shenandoah
); “The Child Screams and Looks Back at You” (
Fiction
); “Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat” (
Mississippi Review
); “The Burden” (
Ploughshares
); “What Noni Hubner Did Not Tell the Police About Jesus” (
Sun & Moon
); and “Principles” (
Aspen Anthology
).
First HarperPerennial edition 1996.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Banks, Russell, 1940â
Trailerpark / Russell Banks
p. cm.
ISBN 0-06-097706-X
1. New EnglandâSocial life and customsâFiction. 2. Trailer campsâNew EnglandâFiction. I. Title.
PS3552.A49T7 Â Â Â Â Â 1996
813'.54âdc20
95-53310
EPub Edition © SEPTEMBER 2011 ISBN: 9780062123268
05
/RRD 10
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