Hamilton Stark

"You won't like Hamilton Stark...He's a mean drunk who hates cats, dogs, and people...And perhaps most annoying of all, he never appears in this novel named after him...'Hamilton Stark' is a murder mystery/memoir/biography whose apparent purpose is to explore the ambiguous charm of Hamilton Stark. The story is told by an unnamed narrator [who is] obsessed with Hamilton Strk...Banks has skillfully used his repertoire of contemporary techniques to write a novel that is classically American--a dark, but sometimes funny, romance with echoes of Poe and Melville."Banks, Russell is the author of 'Hamilton Stark' with ISBN 9780060977054 and ISBN 0060977051.