Continental Drift
By Russell Banks
(Harper Perennial Modern Classics, Paperback, 9780060854942, 408pp.)
Publication Date: March 2007
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback, Paperback, Paperback
Categories: Classics
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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.
Russell Banks is a past president of the International Parliament of Writers and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been translated into twenty languages and has received numerous awards, including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. He lives in upstate New York and Miami, Florida.












