Trailerpark (31 page)

TRAILERPARK
. Copyright © 1981 by Russell Banks. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1981 by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc. It is reprinted here by arrangement with the author.

The following stories have appeared elsewhere: “The Right Way” (
Boston Globe Magazine
); “Politics” (
Shenandoah
); “The Child Screams and Looks Back at You” (
Fiction
); “Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat” (
Mississippi Review
); “The Burden” (
Ploughshares
); “What Noni Hubner Did Not Tell the Police About Jesus” (
Sun & Moon
); and “Principles” (
Aspen Anthology
).

First HarperPerennial edition 1996.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Banks, Russell, 1940–

Trailerpark / Russell Banks

p. cm.

ISBN 0-06-097706-X

1. New England—Social life and customs—Fiction. 2. Trailer camps—New England—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3552.A49T7       1996

813'.54—dc20

95-53310

EPub Edition © SEPTEMBER 2011 ISBN: 9780062123268

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