Name: American Rust
ISBN: 9780385527514

Philipp Meyer

Follows the lives of two young men bound by family, inertia, and the ties of home to a dying Pennsylvania steel town, who dream of escaping to California together until one of them accidentally kills a transient and attempts to cover up the crime.

American Rust

Jennifer Dieter

Be prepared to wonder what happened to the last 50 pages of the book. The ending was completely abrupt and leaves you with a lot of questions. Typically, I can tolerate a non-ending but only if I know the characters will be o.k. This one did not leave me with that satisfied feeling. Otherwise, a well-written, intriguing novel that held my interest. I love when books are written through the perspective of multiple characters.

Crystal L

Mike Sapiton

Pate Hubbard

Anthony Sabourin

Mary Baldwin

Set in a beautiful but dying Pennsylvania steel town, American Rustis a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation that arises from its loss.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, abandoned homes, and the polluted river. Isaac is the smartest kid in town, left behind to care for his sick father after his mothercommitssuicide and his sisterLee moves away. Now Isaac wants out too. Not even his best friend, Billy Poe, can stand in his way: broad-shouldered Billy, always ready for a fight, still living in his mother's trailer. Then, on the very day of Isaac's leaving, something happens that changes the friends' fates and tests the loyalties of their friendship and those of their lovers, families, and the town itself. Evoking John Steinbeck's novels of restless lives during the Great Depression, American Rustis an extraordinarilymoving novel about the bleak realities that battle our desire for transcendance, and the power of love and friendship to redeem us.

American Rust

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