{"product_id":"continental-drift-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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBanks, Russell:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eRussell Banks, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, is one of America's most prestigious fiction writers, 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 prizes and awards, including the Common Wealth Award for Literature. He lives in upstate New York and Miami, Florida.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50644433305874,"sku":"9780060854942","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2313c18a-4cce-44de-8074-a9ccb8ac5185.jpg?v=1733110044","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/continental-drift-9780060854942","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}