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The Reserve: A Novel (P.S.) by Banks, Russell is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Reserve: A Novel (P.S.) about?
Part love story, part murder mystery, set on the cusp of the Second World War, Russell Banks's sharp-witted and deeply engaging new novel raises dangerous questions about class, politics, art, love, and madness#8212;and explores what happens when two powerful personalities, trapped at opposite ends of a social divide, begin to break the rules. Twenty-nine-year-old Vanessa Cole is a wild, stunningly beautiful heiress, the adopted only child of a highly regarded New York brain surgeon and his socialite wife. Twice married, Vanessa has been scandalously linked to any number of rich and famous men. But on the night of July 4, 1936, at her parents' country home in a remote Adirondack Mountain enclave known as The Reserve, two events coincide to permanently alter the course of Vanessa's callow life: her father dies suddenly of a heart attack, and a mysteriously seductive local artist, Jordan Groves, blithely lands his Waco biplane in the pristine waters of the forbidden Upper Lake. . . . Jordan's reputation has preceded him; he is internationally known as much for his exploits and conquests as for his paintings themselves, and, here in the midst of the Great Depression, his leftist loyal
Who reads The Reserve: A Novel (P.S.)?
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Banks, Russell
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780061572876
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.5 / 5 (122 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14