Continental Drift

Authors: Banks, Russell
Publisher: Harper Perennial
BISAC/Subject: FIC019000, FIC004000, FIC051000
ISBN: 9780062123169, Related ISBNs: 0062123165, 9780060854942, 9780062123169
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 408,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis:

“The most convincing portrait I know of contemporary America . . . a great American novel.”— James Atlas, The Atlantic Monthly

A reissue of Russell Banks’ classic novel about love and sex, racism and poverty, and the failures of the American dream, now with P.S. and as a Harper Perennial Modern Classic.

Russell Bank’s searing tale of uprootedness, migration, and exploitation in contemporary America brings together two of the dominant realms of his fiction—New England and the Caribbean—skillfully braided into one taut narrative. Continental Drift is the story of a young blue-collar worker and family man who abandons his broken dreams in New Hampshire and the story of a young Haitian woman who, with her nephew and baby, flees the brutal injustice and poverty of her homeland.

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