Continental Drift Reissue Russell Banks by Russell Banks 9780060854942, 0060854944 instant download after payment.

“The most convincing portrait I know of contemporary America . . . a great American novel.”  —  James Atlas, The Atlantic Monthly 

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.

"In a career spanning some forty years and sixteen books of fiction, Russell Banks has established himself as our foremost chronicler of hardscrabble lives in economically depressed northern New England and upstate New York.. [he] has always written with unshowy frankness about the plain animal comforts of sex, the companionable mingling of bodies rendered unbeautiful by age and hard work and the booze and junk food that bring fleeting consolation...."  -  Jennifer Schuessler, The New York Review

Russell Banks is a member of the International Parliament of Writers and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has written fiction, and more recently, non-fiction, with Dreaming up America. His main works include the novels Continental Drift, Rule of the Bone, Cloudsplitter, The Sweet Hereafter, and Affliction. The latter two novels were each made into feature films in 1997.