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Aug 12, 2010 · American Rust. Paperback – August 12, 2010. A heart-wrenching, unputdownable tale of redemption and survival in small-town America in the tradition of Richard Ford, Pete Dexter and Cormac McCarthy. Set in a beautiful but economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town, 'American Rust' is a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation ...
American Rust is gritty and speaks about an America that maybe we want to pretend isn't there, and is very stylized in a way that (I think) only Southern writers are (Meyer studied at Cornell but wrote the bulk of Rust while a fellow at UT-Austin, and claims Faulkner as a heavy influence).
Jan 12, 2010 · American Rust. Book One. 1. Isaac's mother was dead five years but he hadn't stopped thinking about her. He lived alone in the house with the old man, twenty, small for his age, easily mistaken for a boy. Late morning and he walked quickly through the woods toward town--a small thin figure with a backpack, trying hard to keep out of sight.
American Rust is a book of revelations, told as cleanly and deliberately as a blade-cut, with a powerful, humbling wisdom. It will take your breath away. With its strong narrative engine and understated social insight, American Rust is reminiscent of the best of Robert Stone and Russell Banks. Author Philipp Meyer locates the heart of his ...
American Rust. Philipp Meyer, . . Spiegel & Grau, $24.95 (384pp) ISBN 978-0-385-52751-4. In his unrelentingly downbeat debut, Meyer offers up a character-driven near-noir set in Buell, a dying ...
Jan 12, 2010 · American Rust: A Novel. American Rust. : NOW A HIT STREAMING 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. Left alone to care for his aging father after his ...
Synopsis. American Rust, published in 2009 by Spiegel & Grau, is Phillip Meyer’s first novel. The story focuses on Buell, Pennsylvania, a dying steel town. Jobs are disappearing, methadone use ...
