Continental Drift
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On Sale:
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01/03/2007
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Trade paperback
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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.
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Critical Praise for
Continental Drift
“Russell Banks is a writer of extraordinary power.”
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Gail Caldwell
"A great American novel...a lesson in history...It is the most convincing portrait I know of contemporary America."
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James Atlas, The Atlantic
“An excellent novel...An important novel because of the precise manner in which it reflects the spiritual yearning and materialistic frenzy of our contemporary life. It is also an extremely skillful book, both in its writing, which is impeccable, and in the way it unfolds. . . . Always, Banks writes with tremendous knowledge, convictions, and authenticity.”
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Chicago Tribune
“An important novel because of the precise manner in which it reflects the spiritual yearning and materialistic frenzy of our contemporary life. . . . Always, Banks writes with tremendous knowledge, conviction, and authenticity.”
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Chicago Tribune
“At its deepest level, Continental Drift is about a culture imagining itself. Black, white, New World, Old World, living and dead, animal and mineral, a startling array of voices perform this act of creation. Banks has captured the din, clamor, and chaos of these voices clearly and convincingly.”
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John Edgar Wideman
"Grandeur...Tremendously ambitious...A powerful, disturbing study in moral 'drift', confusion, and uncertainty."
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San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle
“Grandeur. . . . Tremendously ambitious. . . . A powerful, disturbing study in moral ‘drift,’ confusion, and uncertainty.”
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San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle
"Russell Banks is a writer of extraordinary power."
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Gail Caldwell, Boston Globe
"Russell Banks...explores the themes of good and evil, fate and freedom, success and failure, love and sex, and racism and poverty through alternating chapters focusing of dual protagonists: Bob Dubois, 30, who forsakes his dead-end job as an oil burner repairman in New Hampshire to begin a new life in Florida, and Vanise Dorsinville, a young, illiterate Haitian mother who seeks refuge from poverty by fleeing to America...Original in conception, gripping in execution."
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Newsday
“Russell Banks...explores the themes of good and evil, fate and freedom, success and failure, love and sex, and racism and poverty through alternating chapters focusing of dual protagonists: Bob Dubois, 30, who forsakes his dead-end job as an oil burner repairman in New Hampshire to begin a new life in Florida, and Vanise Dorsinville, a young, illiterate Haitian mother who seeks refuge from poverty by fleeing to America...Original in conception, gripping in execution.”
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Newsday
“Unrelenting. . . . A vigorous and original novel.”
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New York Review of Books
“At its deepest level, Continental Drift is about a culture imagining itself. Black, white, New World, Old World, living and dead, animal and mineral, a startling array of voices perform this act of creation. Banks has captured the din, clamor, and chaos of these voices clearly and convincingly.”
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John Edgar Wideman
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