A review by alijc
Affliction by Russell Banks

2.0

The book was not well received. It was depressing, of a sort that we've been inundated with lately - the down on his luck loser and the terrible things that happen to him. It was a struggle to find a sympathetic character to identify with. And after 600-some pages of build-up, it almost came as a relief that Wade didn't leave more bodies on the ground as he fled the town.