Continental Drift (novel)
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Continental Drift is a 1985 novel by Russell Banks. Set in the early 1980s, it follows two plots, through which Banks explores the relationship between apparently distant people drawn together in the world under globalization, which Banks compares to the geologic phenomena of continental drift. The first plot features Bob DuBois, a working class New Englander who heads to Florida in the hopes of striking it rich; the second plot traces the journey of Vanise Dorsinville from Haiti to Florida. It is an avowedly political work, whose stated aim is to "destroy the world as it is."[1]
After publishing Continental Drift, Banks won the Dos Passos Prize for Literature.[2]
References
- ^ Banks, Continental Drift, p. 410
- ^ Recipients of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature
Categories:
- 1985 novels
- American novels
- Novels set in Florida
- 1980s novel stubs
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