LOST MEMORY OF SKIN. by Banks, Russell - (2011)

New York:: Ecco Press,, (2011). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. A novel which "illuminates the shadowed edges of contemporary American culture. . . the young man at the center of this uncompromising and morally complex new novel must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known in his new identity only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, he is shackled to a GPS monitoring device and forbidden to live within 2,500 feet of anywhere children might gather. With nowhere else to go, the Kid takes up residence under a south Florida causeway, in a makeshift encampment with other convicted sex offenders." 416 pp.