American Rust - Softcover

Meyer, Philipp

 
9781847394125: American Rust
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1847394124 ISBN 13: 9781847394125
Verlag: Simon & Schuster UK, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Set in a beautiful but dying Pennsylvania steel town, American Rust is a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation that arises from its loss. It is the story of two young men bound to the town by family, responsibility, inertia and the beauty around them who dream of a future beyond the factories, abandoned homes, and the polluted river.
Isaac is the smartest kid in town, left behind to care for his sick father after his mother commits suicide and his sister Lee moves away. Now Isaac wants out too. Not even his best friend, Billy Poe, can stand in his way: broad-shouldered Billy, always ready for a fight, still living in his mother's trailer. Then, on the very day of Isaac's leaving, something happens that changes the friends' fates and tests the loyalties of their friendship and those of their lovers, families, and the town itself.
Evoking John Steinbeck's novels of restless lives during the Great Depression, American Rust is an extraordinarily moving novel about the bleak realities that battle our desire for transcendance, and the power of love and friendship to redeem us.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Philipp Meyer grew up in Baltimore, dropped out of high school and attended Cornell, where he studied English. Since graduating, Meyer has worked as a derivatives trader and a construction worker. His writing has been published in McSweeney's, The Iowa Review, Salon, and New Stories from the South. From 2005-2008 Meyer was a fellow at the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas. He lives near Ithaca in New York State.

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Verlag
Simon & Schuster UK
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1847394124
ISBN 13 
9781847394125
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
384
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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Verantwortliche Person
Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV
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Herculesplein 96
Utrecht
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