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Continental Drift

By: Russell Banks
Narrated by: Zach Villa
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Now available for the first time in audiobook format, a powerful literary classic from one of contemporary fiction's most acclaimed and important writers. Russell Banks' 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.

©1985 Russell Banks (P)2016 HarperCollins Publishers Classics Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction World Literature
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Emotional and heartbreakingly beautiful novel. This novel had me in tears one moment and laughing the next.

Excellent novel

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Hard to believe that Banks wrote this tedious tale. The parts that involve the struggling working class family that packs it in and moves to Florida, is engrossing and realistic but the part that starts following Haitian culture, characters and plot twists bored the pants off me. The book became its own metaphor: drift, drift, drift.

A Favorite writer fizzles

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Some of the other commenters said this didn’t flow very well as an audio book, but I disagree. I thought it was excellent overall, and enjoyed the narration.

Very good story and performance

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Russell Banks is one of my favorite authors and I was looking forward to listening to this, but as an audiobook, I found the story too dense to cross mediums. What is normally a treat to read as you build the world word by word at your pace, becomes burdensome as you are forced to build it at the narrators pace and that just wasn’t fun for me.
Headed to the book store for a hard copy!!

A better book to read than listen to.

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TOTALLY without value and extremely depressing. Portrays life as hopeless and that it's futile to pursue change.

Give up and die

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