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Title: Continental Drift by Russell Banks, H. S. James ISBN: 5-550-63527-5 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Pub. Date: March, 1985 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.48 (21 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Incredibly thought provoking,beautifully written
Comment: This was one of the best books I've ever read. I learned alot from this book,alot about my own life and the lives of the people around me.Russell Banks hits quite a few nerves in his depiction of the American Dream and all the trappings of our overly materialistic,shallow lives. Banks beautifully blends two seperate lives on a collision course with destiny.Human nature at its best and its worst.Everyone should be able to identify with the main character Bob Dubois, a tragic figure who doesnt know who he is or what he wants.Life just happens to him. On the other side is Vanise Dorsinville and her nephew Claude two poor Haitians who seek a new life in America.The misery they endure will haunt you.Banks' knowledge of the Haitian culture was phenominal.What a remarkable book!
Rating: 5
Summary: Morally adrift in contemporary America
Comment: Truly a great book of the past few decades. Continental Drift parallels the lives of two individuals co-existing in North America. The main character, Bob Dubois, is a mediciocre, who flees his drab life in New Hampshire for the riches of Florida. In the process, Banks comments on racism, sex and materialism. In contrast, is the tragic story of a young Haitian woman seeking the American dream. Bob Dubois is a ghost of man morally; adrift in a society that rewards greed, consumerism and de-emphasizes love and committment. The Haitian story reflects on poverty and the moral bankrupcy it extracts. Russell Banks is one of our best writers today. Don't miss this book.
Rating: 1
Summary: Much repellent about this book
Comment: This dreary account of a foul-mouthed adulterer who consistently makes the wrong choices might remind some of other tragic characters in great fiction, such as the protagonist in An American Tragedy or in Crime and Punishment or Madame Bovary. But the difference here is that Bob Dubois never learns, he repeatedly does the dumb thing, whether it is adultery or use of dope or abusing his wife or his poor innocent children. One can hardly help being disgusted by a man who does not seem to have a brain in his body. Only a moron would break all the windows in his own car when he is short of money for his wife and kids, or wreck his home, or booze and do dope when he does not know how to pay for necessary care for his child. As for all the stuff about voodoo this may be interest to some but to me was a bore. Surely the account of the Haitians' plight is distressing, but it helps to make this book a depressing one. Frankly I was glad when I finished this pretentious and not well-written book, and thought Dubois got what he asked for and deserved.
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