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Lädt ... Verstoßenvon Russell Banks
  
Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch.  gjky | Apr 9, 2023 |    ) iszevthere | Jul 26, 2022 | In this book, Russell Banks forces us to look at the way we treat sex offenders, without expecting us to sympathize with them. He shows that ongoing restrictions can impair an offender's ability to rehabilitate by curtailing housing and employment opportunities. He shows that an ex-politician convicted of having sex with children is treated the same was as a young man trying to have consensual sex with a teenaged girl seven years his junior. In the novel, the Kid is befriended by the Professor -- a genius who is studying the link between homelessness and sex offenders. But what is the Professor really after? It seems he may have motives beyond his stated one. He and the Kid become more and more involved in each other's lives. And, through the character of the Professor, we start to question what is true about not only him, but about human nature. Excellent writing and deep, complex character development. I loved this one. (  ) LynnB | Nov 10, 2021 | ) Melwilk | Mar 19, 2020 | motherraccoon | Jan 8, 2020 | keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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HTML: The acclaimed author of The Sweet Hereafter and Rule of the Bone returns with a provocative new novel that illuminates the shadowed edges of contemporary American culture with startling and unforgettable results Suspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, the young man at the center of Russell Banks's uncompromising and morally complex new novel must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known in his new identity only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, he is shackled to a GPS monitoring device and forbidden to live within 2,500 feet of anywhere children might gather. With nowhere else to go, the Kid takes up residence under a south Florida causeway, in a makeshift encampment with other convicted sex offenders. Barely beyond childhood himself, the Kid, despite his crime, is in many ways an innocent, trapped by impulses and foolish choices he himself struggles to comprehend. Enter the Professor, a man who has built his own life on secrets and lies. A university sociologist of enormous size and intellect, he finds in the Kid the perfect subject for his research on homelessness and recidivism among convicted sex offenders. The two men forge a tentative partnership, the Kid remaining wary of the Professor's motives even as he accepts the counsel and financial assistance of the older man. When the camp beneath the causeway is raided by the police, and later, when a hurricane all but destroys the settlement, the Professor tries to help the Kid in practical matters while trying to teach his young charge new ways of looking at, and understanding, what he has done. But when the Professor's past resurfaces and threatens to destroy his carefully constructed world, the balance in the two men's relationship shifts. Suddenly, the Kid must reconsider everything he has come to believe, and choose what course of action to take when faced with a new kind of moral decision. Long one of our most acute and insightful novelists, Russell Banks often examines the indistinct boundaries between our intentions and actions. A mature and masterful work of contemporary fiction from one of our most accomplished storytellers, Lost Memory of Skin unfolds in language both powerful and beautifully lyrical, show-casing Banks at his most compelling, his reckless sense of humor and intense empathy at full bore. The perfect convergence of writer and subject, Lost Memory of Skin probes the zeitgeist of a troubled society where zero tolerance has erased any hope of subtlety and compassionâ??a society where isolating the offender has perhaps created a new kind of victim. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The Kid meets the Professor, a vast man of genius intellect who has his own secrets to hide. He asks the Kid for help in some research he is doing on homeless sex offenders. The Kid reluctantly goes along, and gradually starts to warily form a bond with his mysterious benefactor.
Banks' book holds up to the light the vindictive way that society treats some of its marginalised, somehow turning ostensible predators into victims in the process of implementing insane social policies based on little more than fear and retribution. Still he does not quite pull this off; in the end the backstory of the Professor is too fanciful and weak, and lets down what could have been an interesting conclusion. (