"United States" . . "University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign). Press." . . . . . "The New World is, in the words of its author, \"a carefully structured gathering of ten tales that dramatize and explore the process and progress of self-transcendence, tales that describe and embrace the spiritual limits and possibilities of life in the New World\". Both religious and funny, the stories mark a giant step forward in Banks's rapid development into one of the nation's most exciting young writers." . . . . . "Fiction" . . . . . "The New World : tales" . "The new world"@en . "The new world" . "The new world : tales" . . . . . . .