| Continental Drift Contributor(s): Banks, Russell (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060854944 ISBN-13: 9780060854942 Publisher: Ecco Press OUR PRICE: $16.14 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2007 Annotation: A powerful literary classic from one of contemporary fiction's most acclaimed and important writers, Russell Banks's "Continental Drift" is a masterful novel of hope lost and gained, and a gripping, indelible story of fragile lives uprooted and transformed by injustice, disappointment, and the seductions and realities of the American dream. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Cultural Heritage |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: P.S. |
| Physical Information: 1.06" H x 5.39" W x 8.05" (0.83 lbs) 408 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Chronological Period - 1980's - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies - Cultural Region - New England - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 78282 Reading Level: 6.5 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 25.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Banks, Russell: - Russell Banks, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, is 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 has received numerous prizes and awards, including the Common Wealth Award for Literature. He lives in upstate New York and Miami, Florida.
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