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American Rust
by Meyer, Philipp
- Used
- Paperback
- Signed
- Condition
- N-Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385527527
- ISBN 13
- 9780385527521
- Seller
-
Lewisville, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2009. Book. N-Fine. Trade Paperback. Signed by Author(s). Later Printing. A square solid tight nread copy. This copy has some light pagedge soil else fine. This copy includes a picture of the author at the signing event..
Synopsis
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Pat Cramer, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 032570
- Title
- American Rust
- Author
- Meyer, Philipp
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - N-Fine
- Edition
- Later Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0385527527
- ISBN 13
- 9780385527521
- Publisher
- Spiegel & Grau
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
Pat Cramer, Bookseller
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About the Seller
Pat Cramer, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2006
Lewisville, Texas
About Pat Cramer, Bookseller
I have been selling used and rare books internationally since 1985.I tend to list modern fiction because that is what i know the most about.I specialize on horror and suspense fiction because these are two areas that i enjoy most and because they are two areas that I know the most aboutI am not a generalist dealer but I have been known to list a small percentage of anything that looks interesting to me, fiction and non-fiction, to bring new customers to my site.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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