Flying Too Close to the Sun
The Reserve
By Russell Banks
304 pages. Harper.
When he's not dropping bombs over Fascist Spain, fighter pilot and irascible artist Jordan Groves is buzzing a serene Adirondack lake in his seaplane and trying to defuse bombshell Vanessa Cole, a fine-boned, rebellious socialite (think Katharine Hepburn) with a shameful secret. Russell Banks's latest novel, The Reserve (Harper), set in an upper-crust summer community in the 1930s, seethes with conflict—political, social, sexual, familial. Fasten your seat belts.
By Russell Banks
304 pages. Harper.
When he's not dropping bombs over Fascist Spain, fighter pilot and irascible artist Jordan Groves is buzzing a serene Adirondack lake in his seaplane and trying to defuse bombshell Vanessa Cole, a fine-boned, rebellious socialite (think Katharine Hepburn) with a shameful secret. Russell Banks's latest novel, The Reserve (Harper), set in an upper-crust summer community in the 1930s, seethes with conflict—political, social, sexual, familial. Fasten your seat belts.
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