false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167856526m/26919.jpg 26919 14 <p> A powerful literary classic from one of contemporary fiction's most acclaimed and important writers, Russell Banks's <i>Continental Drift</i> 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. </p> 2601868 1985 Continental Drift (P.S.) total:536|5:139|4:223|3:126|2:39|1:9| 536 2052 753 70 5 1 false false Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Sun Sep 23 06:33:57 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 23 06:36:17 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Mon Sep 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 13:06:42 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 19:27:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Nov 16 08:11:41 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 08:15:09 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jan 24 10:01:25 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 22:06:02 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false true Tue Jun 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 06:21:32 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 05:53:22 -0700 2009 Continental Drift is a deeply bitter and cynical work reminiscent of Revolutionary Road and much like that work also very well written and paced almost like a thriller. It shows that you can make great works that move deftly and prove thought provokin...more...]]> 3 0 false true Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 14 10:22:45 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 14 10:22:45 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Feb 04 20:46:04 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 04 20:47:03 -0800 2008
In reading Continental Drift, a tragedy in every sense, I was struck by how usual the novel was in its structure and its distinct narrator. Banks employs a Haitian loa (a spirit of the dead) to tell us the story of Bob Dubois, a frustrated, blue-collar resident of New Ha...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Mon May 07 10:54:07 -0700 2007 Mon May 07 10:54:29 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 09:15:39 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 09:19:38 -0800 2008
It's good, damn good. But the end...and maybe the first two pages, that is pure authorial foolishness.

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