Philipp Meyer, author of American Rust, was in the Carlton shop on May 26 in conversation with Melbourne muso David Bridie. Listen back to the event now.
Philipp Meyer and David Bridie at Readings Carlton
Download | Thursday 28 May 2009
Readings Presents podcast: Philipp Meyer in conversation with David Bridie
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Readings_Presents_Philipp_Meyer.mp3
Philip Meyer
American Rust
Philipp Meyer
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )
A heart-wrenching, unputdownable tale of redemption and survival in small-town America in the tradition of Richard Ford, Pete Dexter and Cormac McCarthy.
'A grimly powerful hybrid: provocative literary fiction crossed with a propulsive thriller'- Kirkus Review
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 arises 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 es...