Continental Drift -- Russell Banks, Paperback

"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.

Author: Russell Banks
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 03/01/2007
Pages: 408
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.05h x 5.39w x 1.06d
ISBN: 9780060854942

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.5
Point Value: 25
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 78282 / Continental Drift