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Random House
July 2008
On Sale: June 24, 2008
480 pages
ISBN: 0679456805
EAN: 9780679456803
Hardcover
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From Ethan Canin, bestselling author of The Palace Thief,
comes a stunning novel, set in a small town during the
Nixon era and today, about America and family, politics and
tragedy, and the impact of fate on a young man’s life.
In the early 1970s, Corey Sifter, the son of working-class
parents, becomes a yard boy on the grand estate of the
powerful Metarey family. Soon, through the family’s
generosity, he is a student at a private boarding school
and an aide to the great New York senator Henry Bonwiller,
who is running for president of the United States. Before
long, Corey finds himself involved with one of the Metarey
daughters as well, and he begins to leave behind the world
of his upbringing. As the Bonwiller campaign gains
momentum, Corey finds himself caught up in a complex web of
events in which loyalty, politics, sex, and gratitude
conflict with morality, love, and the truth. America America is a beautiful novel about America as it
was and is, a remarkable exploration of how vanity,
greatness, and tragedy combine to change history and fate.
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