The most convincing portrait I know of contemporary America . . . a great American novel. James Atlas, The Atlantic MonthlyA 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 Banks searing tale of uprootedness, migration, and exploitation in contemporary America brings together two of the dominant realms of his fictionNew England and the Caribbeanskillfully 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.
| ISBN: | 9780062123169 |
| Publication date: | 22nd November 2011 |
| Author: | Russell Banks |
| Publisher: | Harper Perennial |
| Format: | Ebook (Epub) |