ISBN: 9780385527521

NOW A SHOWTIME ORIGINAL TV SERIES • A “bold, absorbing novel” (The New York Times Book Review) of the lost American dream, the acts of friendship, loyalty, and love … More...

NOW A SHOWTIME ORIGINAL TV SERIES • A “bold, absorbing novel” (The New York Times Book Review) of the lost American dream, the acts of friendship, loyalty, and love that arise from its loss, and two young men, bound to their hometown, who crave an escape. “Powerful . . . gripping . . . in the tradition that stretches from Ernest Hemingway to Cormac McCarthy.”—The Washington Post NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • The Washington Post • Economist •Pittsburgh Post-Gazette • Newsweek • Kansas City Star • Idaho Statesman Left alone to care for his aging father after his mother dies by suicide and his sister escapes to Yale, Isaac English longs for a life beyond his hometown, a beautiful but economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town. But when he finally sets out to leave for good, accompanied by his temperamental best friend, former high school football star Billy Poe, they are caught up in a terrible act of violence that changes their lives forever.Evoking John Steinbeck’s novels of restless lives during the Great Depression, American Rust takes us into the contemporary American heartland at a moment of profound unrest and uncertainty about the future. It is a dark but lucid vision, a moving novel about the bleak realities that battle our desire for transcendence and the power of love and friendship to redeem us. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Fiction>Fiction>Literary Fict, Random House Publishing Group Core >1<

2010, ISBN: 0385527527

[EAN: 9780385527521], Neubuch, [PU: Random House Publishing Group], FICTION - MYSTERY DETECTIVE SAGAS LITERARY & GENERAL GIFTS RUST FAMILY REALISTIC BOOKS NOVELS LITERATURE CLASSIC MURDER… More...

[EAN: 9780385527521], Neubuch, [PU: Random House Publishing Group], FICTION - MYSTERY DETECTIVE SAGAS LITERARY & GENERAL GIFTS RUST FAMILY REALISTIC BOOKS NOVELS LITERATURE CLASSIC MURDER CRIME ROMANCE, Philipp Meyer grew up in Baltimore, dropped out of high school, and got his GED when he was sixteen. After spending several years volunteering at a trauma center in downtown Baltimore, he attended Cornell University, where he studied English. Since graduati., Books<

2010, ISBN: 9780385527521

Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2010-01-12. paperback. New. 5x0x8., Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2010-01-12, 6