Continental Drift

"The most convincing portrait I know of contemporary America . . . a great American novel." -- James Atlas, The Atlantic Monthly From acclaimed author Russell Banks, a masterful novel of hope lost and gained -- a gripping, indelible story of fragile lives uprooted and transformed by injustice, disappointment, and the seductions and realities of the American dream. Banks''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. Continental Drift is a powerful literary classic from one of contemporary fiction''s most important writers.

About the author

Russell Banks, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, was one of America’s most prestigious fiction writers, a past president of the International Parliament of Writers, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been translated into twenty languages and he received numerous prizes and awards, including the Common Wealth Award for Literature. He died in January 2023 at the age of eighty-two.
 

Product details

• Authors: Russell Banks
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.03.2007
• EAN: 9780060854942
• ISBN: 978-0-06-085494-2
• No. of pages: 408
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 203 mm x 25 mm
• Series: P.S.
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Romance, Historical romance, Historical fiction, Family life fiction, Relating to early adulthood, United States of America, USA, Anthologies: general, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Historical / General, FICTION: Romance / Historical / 20th Century, FICTION: Crime, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Women Authors, FICTION: Classics, FICTION: Cultural Heritage, HARPER PERENNIAL CLASSICS: FICTION, FICTION: World Literature / American / 20th Century, Modern and Contemporary romance, Classic fiction: general and literary, Harper Perennial Classics / Fiction