VINTAGE CANADA EDITION, 2001

Copyright © 2000 by Russell Banks

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in Canada by Vintage Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited, in 2001. First published in hardcover in Canada by Alfred A. Knopf Canada, Toronto, in 2000. Distributed by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

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Some of the previously uncollected stories in this volume were published in the following periodicals: Esquire (“Plains of Abraham,” “Djinn,” “Lobster Night”); The Village Voice Literary Supplement (“The Visit”); The Boston Globe Magazine (“Xmas”); Conjunctions (“The Moor”); GQ (“Cow-Cow”); Ploughshares (“Quality Time”).

Grateful acknowledgement is made to the University of Illinois Press for permission to reprint “Indisposed,” “The Caul,” and “The Rise of the Middle Class.”
From The New World. Copyright © 1978 by Russell Banks. Used with permission of the University of Illinois Press.

The previously collected stories were originally published in the following volumes: Searching for Survivors (New York: Fiction Collective/Braziller, 1975); Trailerpark (New York: HarperCollins, 1981); Success Stories (New York: HarperCollins, 1986).

Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data

Banks, Russell, 1940–
The angel on the roof : the stories of Russell Banks

eISBN: 978-0-307-36754-9

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PS3552.A46A73 2001         813′.54         C2001-930306-8

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