American Rust - Softcover

Meyer, Philipp

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1471133702 ISBN 13: 9781471133701

Verlag: Simon + Schuster UK, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

'A startlingly mature and impressive debut' KATE ATKINSON

'Darkly disturbing and darkly compelling' PATRICIA CORNWELL

'Written with considerable dramatic intensity and pace' COLM TÓIBÍN

'A masterpiece. The best book to come out of America since The Road' CHRIS CLEAVE

An American voice reminiscent of Steinbeck - a debut novel on friendship, loyalty, and love, centering on a murder in a dying Pennsylvania steel town, from the bestselling author of THE SON.

Isaac is the smartest kid in town, left behind to care for his sick father after his mother dies by 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 transcendence, and the power of love and friendship to redeem us.
 

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Philipp Meyer is an American novelist. He is the author of American Rust and The Son, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a New York Times bestseller. Meyer is a chevalier (knight) in France’s Order of Arts and Letters. Both of his prior novels were adapted into television shows and translated into dozens of languages. His short stories have appeared in The New Yorker and McSweeney’s. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

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An American voice reminiscent of Steinbeck - a debut novel on friendship, loyalty, and love, centering on a murder in a dying Pennsylvania steel town

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster UK
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1471133702
• ISBN 13: 9781471133701
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Van Ditmar Boeken, VDB Sales; sales@vanditmar.nl; ; Papendorpseweg 99; Utrecht; 3528 BJ; Niederlande