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Author:	Philipp Meyer	Format:	Hardback
Publisher:	Spiegel & Grau	1723687:	0385527519
ISBN-13:	9780385527514	Category:	Mystery/Thriller
Publication Year:	2009	Sub-Category:	--
Special Attributes:	--	Language:	English
Condition:	New

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Two downtrodden friends become involved in the death of a transient in Meyer's debut novel, a brutally bleak lower class crime tragedy set in a Pennsylvania steel town. Two young boys find that their dreams are not sharp enough to sever the ties that bind them to the dying industrial town that they call home. Isaac English and Billy Poe are desperate to escape their dying hometown of Buell, Pennsylvania, so they decide to head out west to the golden skies of California. On their first night out, however, they have a confrontation with another drifter, which ends in blood. This moment of accidental violence quickly spins into a whirlpool of repercussions that threatens to swallow the boys and everyone they know in this bleak portrait of foolish faith and corroded hope.
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Length:	367 pages
Height:	9.8 in.
Width:	6.5 in.
Thickness:	1.0 in.
Weight:	23.2 oz.

Publisher's Note
Follows the lives of two young men bound by family, responsibility, inertia, and the ties of home to a dying Pennsylvania steel town, who dream of a future beyond that of the abandoned steel mills, deserted houses, factories, and pollution that rules the world they know, in a debut novel about loyalty, friendship, unrest, and redemption. 40,000 first printing.
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"Meyer has a thrilling eye for failed dreams and writes uncommonly tense scenes of violence, and in the character of Grace creates a woeful heroine. Fans of Cormac McCarthy or Dennis Lehane will find in Meyer an author worth watching." (09/15/2008) "Often disheartening, AMERICAN RUST reminds us that there is, indeed, much to be bitter about in towns that have been left behind." (02/01/2009) Meyer is expert at conveying the sweeping power of circumstances that have chained Billy and Isaac to [their hometown of] Buel. He shows how seemingly small choices ripple long beyond their expected wake." (02/19/2009) "Philipp Meyer's powerful first novel...scrapes beneath today's economic headlines to show us a community corroded by poverty and despair. Told in language both plaintive and grand, it's a tale of murder and the struggle for redemption in a Pennsylvania steel town that will never reclaim its old prosperity." (02/25/2009) "Mr. Meyer is not only able to create a richly layered narrative with multiple perspectives, but he's also able to climb inside his people's heads and channel their thoughts and feelings....AMERICAN RUST announces the arrival of a gifted new writer...who understands how place and personality and circumstance can converge to create the perfect storm of tragedy." (02/26/2009) "AMERICAN RUST is a simple yet intense story....[that] depicts a stunning postindustrial landscape." (03/04/2009) "The characters manage...their complex lives in run-down neighborhoods, where they get drunk, argue, fight, have sex, find and lose hope, kill (by accident), attempt suicide and run away...Meanwhile, they turn into blind alleys, add up facts (which aren't facts) and make seemingly small mistakes that turn out to be life-changing. With each misstep, Meyer ratchets up the tension." (03/08/2009) "In short, simple brush strokes, Meyer captures the beauty and destitution of Isaac's world...[AMERICAN RUST is] a distinctive story full of a sorrowful hope graced by a profound respect for struggle and the unrelenting courage necessary to carry on." (03/10/2009) "AMERICAN RUST is a bold, absorbing novel with a keen interest in how communities fail. Meyer knows that reductive explanations aren't sufficient, and he moves deftly from the panoramic to the microscopic..." (03/22/2009)

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American Rust

ISBN:	9780385527514
Author:	Meyer, Philipp
Publisher:	Bantam Dell Pub Group
Published:	2/24/2009
Pages:	368
Binding:	HARDCOVER
Weight:	1 lbs.

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