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Continental Drift by Russell Banks




Continental Drift

by Russell Banks
HarperCollins Publishers; April 2000


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Continental Drift by Russell Banks was recently reissued. In the novel, two disparate characters — a burnt out furnace repairman from new Hampshire and a Haitian emigre — are both seeking a better life. They find common ground and their destinies when they meet in Florida.

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Links for this book:
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Also by this author:
The Sweet Hereafter; HarperCollins Publishers; August 1992

Cloudsplitter; HarperCollins Publishers; January 1999

Rule of the Bone; HarperCollins Publishers; March 1996

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