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Lädt ... Continental Drift (P.S.) (Original 1985; 2007. Auflage)von Russell Banks (Autor)
Werk-InformationenGegenströmung. von Russell Banks (1985)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Continental Drift is a powerful book dealing that shows how some of the worst and most exploitive experiences that humans have are born from the trivial failures of imperfect people. Many of the people in this book are hugely flawed and only partly evil. Yet their actions and desperation when magnified by the relentless drive for profit on all things that is capitalism generate absolute horrors and destroy lives and spirits. A book like this should is so important especially now when so many advocates of social justice imagine that people can just "envision the good they want to be" and that that will be enough. ( ) Continental drift is beautifully written, but a seriously depressing book to read. It's the tale of an average Joe kind of a man who makes one bad decision after another in his life and consequently, we the reader, watch his life spiral further and further down a very slippery slope. And what makes the book even sadder is that while Bob made these decisions and is therefore responsible for the consequences, his unfortunate wife and children deserved better.
While the scope of ''Continental Drift'' is huge - the author wants to do nothing less than capture American life as it exists today - it remains, somehow, acutely personal; in the story of Bob Dubois's sad, brief life, we catch a frightening glimpse of our own mortality. AuszeichnungenBemerkenswerte Listen
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. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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