 First edition (publ. HarperCollins) | |
| Author | Russell Banks |
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| Publisher | HarperCollins |
Publication date | June 4, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0-06-017396-3 |
The Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks (2000) is a collection of short stories by Russell Banks. [1] [2] [3] It consists of a total of thirty-one previously published stories, including twenty-two stories that appeared in earlier short story collections, along with nine that were previously uncollected.
Twenty-two of the thirty-one stories that Banks selected for this volume were published in four earlier collections, although Banks writes that many of the stories "have been revised for this edition". [4] The previously collected stories were originally published in the following volumes by Banks: Searching for Survivors (New York: Fiction Collective/ Braziller, 1975); Trailerpark (New York: HarperCollins, 1981); Success Stories (New York: HarperCollins, 1986).
In his "Note" appended at the end of this volume, Russell Banks writes the following:
As this book is published, I am turning sixty, and these stories represent the best work I have done in the form over the thirty-seven years since I began trying to write in prose — at least that’s my hope. [4]
The following is a list of the previously collected stories republished in The Angel on the Roof, under the titles of the collections in which they originally appeared:
The previously uncollected stories in The Angel on the Roof are as follows (with the original publication/periodical in parentheses):