
Foregone
A Novel
Author: Russell Banks
Narrator: Stephen Mendel
Unabridged: 11 hr 21 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Ecco
Published: 03/02/2021
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Family Life, Psychological

Author: Russell Banks
Narrator: Stephen Mendel
Unabridged: 11 hr 21 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Ecco
Published: 03/02/2021
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Family Life, Psychological
Russell Banks, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, was one of America’s most prestigious fiction writers, a past president of the International Parliament of Writers, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been translated into twenty languages and he received numerous prizes and awards, including the Common Wealth Award for Literature. He died in January 2023 at the age of eighty-two.
2.5 stars When I finish reading a book , I’m almost always sure of what I think about it, how I feel about it . I can say that I didn’t really like this book, but it’s not as simple as that. It’s the story of a pitiful man, a famed documentary film maker in the last moments of his life, dying of can......more
I really liked the first part of Foregone. The story is told from the perspective of Leo, a documentary film maker, as a documentary is being made of him, as he is dying of cancer. His mind wanders. He seems intent on telling truths that no one knows but it’s not clear what is true and what he is im......more
In this audacious—dare I say brilliant?—new work, Russell Banks’ character, Leo Fife—a documentary filmmaker just inches away from death—shines the spotlight on himself and what has been left unsaid. The conceit is that Fife, with days remaining in his life, allows his acolyte, Malcolm MacLeod, to re......more