num_pages: 410
description: 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.
language: English
title: Continental Drift
titlecomplete: Continental Drift
characters: Bob Dubois, Vanise Dorsinville
genres: 20th Century, American, Americana, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, Family, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 3693
places: New Hampshire, Florida, Miami, Florida, Haiti
awards: awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Harper Perennial