SARATOGA SPRINGS – Russell Banks, the best-selling author of Continental Drift and The Sweet Hereafter, explores new ground in his newest novel, The Reserve. Banks, who lives upstate, takes us back to the 1930s and inside the hidden Adirondacks sanctuary of New York’s rich and famous.

Part love story, part murder mystery, The Reserve raises questions about class, politics, art love and madness – and explores what happens when two powerful personalities begin to break the rules.

“This is a vividly imagined book,” Scott Turow writes in Publishers Weekly. “A cool noir thriller,” observes fellow New York writer, William Kennedy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed and Roscoe. “This is new and wonderful turf for this masterful storyteller.” Banks was named New York State Author for 2004-2006 by the New York State Writers Institute. The Institute was selected by special mandate from the New York State Legislature in 1985 to award the Edith Wharton Citation of Merit for Fiction Writers (State Author). Other honorees have included Kurt Vonnegut, Norman Mailer and E.L. Doctorow. The Reserve is published by HarperCollins.

Contact:
HarperCollins
Jane Beirn
(212) 207-7590
rachel.chubinsky@harpercollins.com

Author photo: Ileana Florescu

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