Foregone - Russell Banks Audiobook

Written by Russell Banks
Read by Stephen Mendel
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

General Information
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Title: Foregone
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Russell Banks
Narrator: Stephen Mendel
Audiobook Copyright: 2021
Publisher: HarperAudio
Duration: 11 hrs 27 mins
ISBN: 9780063036789
Subjects: Fiction, Literature

File Information
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Media Format: MP3
Total Files: 11
Total Size: 312 MB
Bitrate: 64 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Channels: Stereo

Book Description
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A searing novel about memory, abandonment, and betrayal from the
acclaimed and bestselling Russell Banks At the center of Foregone is
famed Canadian American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife,
one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada
to avoid serving in Vietnam. Fife, now in his late seventies, is dying
of cancer in Montreal and has agreed to a final interview in which he
is determined to bare all his secrets at last, to demythologize his
mythologized life. The interview is filmed by his acolyte and ex–star
student, Malcolm MacLeod, in the presence of Fife’s wife and alongside
Malcolm’s producer, cinematographer, and sound technician, all of whom
have long admired Fife but who must now absorb the meaning of his
astonishing, dark confession.
Imaginatively structured around Fife’s secret memories and alternating
between the experiences of the characters who are filming his
confession, the novel challenges our assumptions and understanding
about a significant lost chapter in American history and the nature of
memory itself. Russell Banks gives us a daring and resonant work about
the scope of one man’s mysterious life, revealed through the fragments
of his recovered past.