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Spiegel and Grau
March 2009
On Sale: February 24, 2009
384 pages
ISBN: 0385527519
EAN: 9780385527514
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Set in a beautiful but economically devastated Pennsylvania
steel town, American Rust is a novel of the lost American
dream and the desperation—as well as the acts of
friendship, loyalty, and love—that arise from its loss.
From local bars to trainyards to prison, it is the story of
two young men, bound to the town by family, responsibility,
inertia, and the beauty around them, who dream of a future
beyond the factories and abandoned homes. Left alone to care for his aging father after his mother
commits suicide and his sister escapes to Yale, Isaac
English longs for a life beyond his hometown. 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.
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