{"product_id":"continental-drift-isbn-9780060854942","title":"Continental Drift","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“The most convincing portrait I know of contemporary America . . . a great American novel.” — James Atlas, \u003cem\u003eThe Atlantic Monthly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom acclaimed author Russell Banks, a masterful novel of hope lost and gained\u003c\/strong\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003ea gripping, indelible story of fragile lives uprooted and transformed by injustice, disappointment, and the seductions and realities of the American dream.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBanks'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. \u003cem\u003eContinental Drift\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eContinental Drift \u003c\/em\u003eis a powerful literary classic from one of contemporary fiction's most important writers.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eA powerful literary classic from one of contemporary fiction's most acclaimed and important writers, Russell Banks's \u003cem\u003eContinental Drift\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Russell Banks is a writer of extraordinary power.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGail Caldwell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A great American novel...a lesson in history...It is the most convincing portrait I know of contemporary America.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames Atlas, The Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Edgar Wideman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Unrelenting. . . . A vigorous and original novel.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887713677541,"sku":"NP9780060854942","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780060854942.jpg?v=1730227298","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/continental-drift-isbn-9780060854942","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}