Discount - Hardcover

Gray, Casey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1468307304 ISBN 13: 9781468307306

Verlag: Overlook Books, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

Immigration, suburban poverty, and big-box retail converge in this audacious debut novel of a nation coming apart at the seams

 

Set in the American Southwest, forty miles north of Juárez, Casey Gray’s ambitious, tragicomic, and ultimately redemptive novel follows a group of customers and employees through the twenty-four hour work cycle as they seek comfort and sustenance inside of the cinderblock walls of a classic American institution—The Superstore. 
 

On the eve of the company president’s visit to the store, a manager’s drunk text to a coworker leads to a series of consequences as brutal as they are wide-ranging: Everyone around him will be affected. 
 

With a cast of characters featuring Ernesto, a local gang member struggling to choose a job pushing carts over a desultory life as a drug dealer; Wilma, a grandmother working double shifts to support her family; and Keith, a high school student with a penchant for filmmaking, Gray offers a startlingly humane, utterly contemporary portrait of life on the suburban fringe. 
 

A vision of an America barely getting by and assaulted by crime, corruption, and exploitation in all of its manifestations, Discount is nevertheless a triumphant and big-hearted novel that marks the arrival of a new voice we won’t soon forget. 

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Overlook Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1468307304
• ISBN 13: 9781468307306
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352
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